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flinched. He didn’t care for sweets. This was a common Zarkstormian trait. And he took an immediate liking to anything electronic and with buttons. After all, his brain worked pretty much the same way. After breakfast, Xzion scooped up his offspring and carted him into his lab.
    “I was going to wait until tonight, but I’ve got plans this evening, so...” He strapped Zachary down on a small exam table and snapped his gloves on. “I want to see your eyes, son. I want to see what is going on in there.”
    “Tell me about your eyes…” He drew closer to his child, so close, their noses almost touched as he examined him closely, scanning him.
    “Hurt,” the little boy offered in his soft, sweet voice.
    “Your eyes hurt?” Xzion asked calmly, trying to gain clarification.
    “One.”
    “Just one? I’m going to point to one of your eyes. Say ‘yes’ if that is the one that hurts.”
    Zachary nodded in understanding. Xzion pointed to the left one. The baby didn’t respond. Xzion smirked. He pointed to the right one. The boy nodded.
    “Yes.”
    “Very good. Now. Daddy wants to take a look.” Xzion scooted closer to his son and pulled gently on the edges of the eye, expanding it. The glossy pink membranes exposed, he looked deeper and closer, not noticing anything unusual. Sighing, he reached and grabbed his monocular ophthalmoscope. Xzion cleared his throat, and moved the instrument up and down and side to side, slowly scanning the entire eyeball. So far, the boy’s eye appeared to be just like his mother’s. He placed his instrument back down, then grabbed the binocular scope, doing the same, tracing the back of the eye. A smile formed and grew until he was lightly laughing. He placed the instrument down. Lowering his head, he shook it, amused and elated.
    “Zachary, I’m sorry that your eye hurts. It is part of your development.” He pressed into his wrist, still laughing, trying to gain control of himself.
    “Greetings, Xzion. You do realize what time it is here, correct? I’m enjoying the rare luxury of sleeping,” Aton said harshly, though Xzion knew the man was happy to hear from him.
    “Yes, and my apologies to you, Aton, for waking you from your slumber. I have some important news, however.”
    “About the Yuledrakes?” Aton yawned.
    “No. About Zachary.” There was a brief pause. Aton was obsessed with his son. He wanted to know how he was developing and changing. The boy intrigued him to no end. No one had ever seen a half human, half Zarkstormian before and he was a scientific sensation.
    “Yes.” He smirked, knowing Aton was tryin g to curb his enthusiasm. “Please tell me.”
    “Remember when we ran tests and it appeared he was demonstrating more human than Zarkstormian traits, from a physical standpoint?”
    “Yes. He also does not carry immediate warrior traits.”
    “Right, but something inside of me, even from the first day he was born, told me otherwise. I’ve been watching him very closely, Aton, and something incredible is going on. In fact I believe he is more warrior than first assessed. Guess what I discovered?”
    “What?” He knew the man really wanted to scream, ‘Damn you! Tell me! Don’t keep me waiting!’
    “He has a laser lens. It is in the beginning development stages.”
    “But…you all are born with the laser. It is there upon birth and gets stronger as the years pass.”
    “Yes, but remember, his human chromosomes and traits are in competition with the Zarkstormian ones, and vice versa. You cannot only compare him to me; you must compare him to my mate, as well. You see, human eyes continue to develop. They reach a peak of optimum strength, and then weaken with age. Zarkstormians are the opposite. Our eyesight gets better and better with time. That includes the Intellects, such as yourself.”
    “Correct. So you believe there is latency in development and the establishment of chords?”
    “Precisely. The laser was always there, just extremely tiny