Wetlands Cbaby -

arrived. They had tracked the signal of their "lost prototype." To them, Pip wasn't a son or a neighbor; he was high-value intellectual property.

Pip submerged himself in the black water. He didn't run. Instead, he connected his interface to the root system of the entire grove. He amplified the "song" of the wetlands—a massive, subsonic frequency that vibrated the very bolts of the salvage boats. Wetlands Cbaby