“"You just hatched out two weeks ago." Kludd turned to Soren, his younger brother. "What do you know about sisters?"
Maybe, Soren thought to himself, they would be better than brothers.”

—  Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter One: "A Nest Remembered", p. 1

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