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In another lifetime, August was a punk kid running a writing-themed e-zine in 2002 and participating in online survivor writing contests; these days, she’s a punk pseudo-adult with an office job and a studio of her own.

Meet Pitney Scolan. Pit, for short. He’s a decorated general and a venerated leader of the sprawling human race. He’s protected his species' colonies from vicious native animal populations and hostile alien life. He’s fiercely introverted, and he’s really looking forward to retiring on his personal planet in the very near future.

Except…now he has to be a dog.

A daugment, to be specific: a cybernetically enhanced canine, previously the doting pet of Pit’s biggest rival, General Tristan. It’s the only way to escape certain assassination.

So Pit grudgingly allies himself with a pair of well-meaning scoundrels and sets sail for seedier space in hopes of escaping Tristan’s clutches. What he finds instead is a galactic conspiracy to force him to make friends.

Daugment

For a shallow cut, clean well, then gently apply a spider web dressing and seal with kerosene oil, then dress the wound.


For a broken limb, bind with a splint and dressings and do not put weight on the limb.


For a broken heart, this healer knows no remedy.


~ excerpt from A Foxfire Future, Volume XXXVII, by Elianka Wigginton


Pit raised his head and squinted at the doorway to his humble guest room. Standing there with his buggy black eyes tilted at Pit was the same daugment that had been with the guards. Pit hadn't caught his name, and he wasn't sure that he'd have remembered it anyway after sleeping so hard.


Chapter 42