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mosomal changes had lyrought instant death in the
hive before.

The red queen mother and her minions fled. In
the confusion of reorganization, they escaped and
they established a new hive far enough away to
thrive.

The red queen mother spawned, using the herds
of animals that roved this bleak planet.

A new rival kingdom was created and for years
the kingdoms lived in peace.

But each knew instinctively that the other hive
was the enemy, that this peace would not last long.
And when war came, the principle weapons would
be in the numbers of warriors.

And so the creatures bred .. . and bred .. - and
bred.

While others of their ilk were hunted under dif-
ferent suns , . .

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•he alien hive was exactly at
Hollywood and Vine. ^

The god of the bugs alone knew if the sliming,
sucking, skulking bastards knew the cultural signif-
icance of the intersection they'd chosen. In truth,
that section of La-La land wasn't exactly what it had
once been, but then nothing in Los Angeles was
these days. And the fact that they chose to infest the
old creaking bank building, in what after all was
comparatively open territory testified to the fact that
this batch's IQ seemed rather low.

Still, thought Captain Alexandra Kozlowski as
she stood a block away from the sun-faded con-
crete dialing the polarizing filter down on her face-
plate against the grim and gritty southern
California sun. You could count on each and every
one of the merciless mother-killers being just as

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