lost life
When Jack checked the nest the next morning, he found a hopeless scene. One of the original white eggs laid by Snow had been pushed out of the nest and was cold and chilled. Had Snow’s devotion to warming the alien egg resulted in her failure to protect her own true offspring? And beside it, that black egg was growing an eerie presence, as if it were feeding on the sacrifice. How many cruel “choices” are being made in this tiny nest?
