changeling

• This was fortunate for the changeling, because the thing in its skull was as much a porpoise brain as it was a human's, and various parts of it were nonhuman crystal and metal A psychiatrist spent a couple of hours with Jimmy, and got very little that was useful. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
• The drugs the changeling was compelled to take by mouth or injection were metabolically insignificant. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
• The shock treatments, where they wrapped you in wet sheets and splashed you with buckets of ice water, were gently stimulating to a creature who could live on Mercury or Pluto But the changeling was surrounded by extremes of human behavior, in both the patients and their attendants, that it would never have seen at the mansion. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
• Unlike the changeling, he did have DNA, but it was alien; he could no more reproduce with a human than he could with a rock or a tree Also unlike the changeling, he seemed to be stuck in human form. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
• They carried World War I Springfield rifles and practiced with them on the range Hand-to-hand combat training was a ballet of restraint for the changeling, who had been a remorseless predator for most of its life. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004

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