Funny how mild eating someone could make you about their slights against you.

"Woodrue was many things, but 'brilliant' was definitely part of it," Pam said. (There was something gratifying about the anger, though, much as it was an echo of a similar anger on a similar face many years ago.) "He wanted to find a way to meld human and plant DNA. He found it. I was a successful experiment. So was he."

She shrugged. Looked out the window.

"Killing something like us takes a little more effort than usual."