![]() ![]() Gan and his sisters perceive being a host as a privilege however, their elder brother Qui disagrees, having witnessed an N'Tlic birth when he was young. The story is narrated by Gan, a young boy chosen before birth to carry the eggs of a female Tlic named T'Gatoi. ![]() When the Tlic realize that humans make excellent hosts for Tlic eggs, they establish the Preserve to protect the humans, and in return require that every family choose a child for implantation. "Bloodchild" describes the unusual bond between a race of insect-like lifeforms called the Tlic and a colony of humans who have escaped Earth and settled on the Tlic planet. Then the blind probing of her ovipositor. I felt the familiar sting, narcotic, mildly pleasant. Gan, the young male Terran chosen by the lead female Tlic, T’Gatoi, accepts his impending fate of being a host for her eggs and offers his body out of love, rage and desperation: ![]()
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