It made sense. Daphne had to admit to herself. "Do your people have any stories in your mythology or history of a mass abduction from your homeworld?" She thought perhaps approaching the mystery from another direction might help.
Kit shook her head. "No. We ourrrsselvess arrre trrranssplantss to Cait, put therrre by the Prrresserrverrss frrrom Kzinti sstock, although , asss you can tell, we arrre nothing like the Kzinti. But theirrr fierrrcenesss rrrunss in ourrr blood. The Mikan arrre the bessst example. They werrre the firrrsst clan on Cait, taking afterrr the marrrtial waysss of the Kzinti. But they developed a code of honorrr, something the Kzinti clearrrly lack." She sniffed disdainfully. Caitians hated Kzinti, as evidenced by their suffering the greatest casualties and receiving the most decorations in the Kzinti Conflict. "But we have no rrrecorrdss orrr trrraditions of a losst people. We achieved ssspaceflight beforrre yourrr people, howeverrr, and like humansss, lossst missssionss. Ssseverrral jussst dissappearrred. We asssumed they had sssufferred a catassstrrrophic accident, and in thossse daysss, without sssubsspace sscannerrrs, rrrradio communication wass everrrything. If a misssion went off the airrr, it wasss asss good asss gone. I think that'sss what happened herrrre. Thessse animalsss arrre not the prrroduct of a naturrral long-terrrm brrreeding prrrogrram. They have been genetically engineerrred, mossst likely overrr the courrrsse of jussst a few hundrrrred yearrrs. I think sssome of ourrr brrrave earrrly ssspacefarrrerrs became the prrrogenitorrrs." Tr'Lawsh's face was filled with sadness and shame. Like human astronauts and cosmonauts of the beginnings of the space age, the Caitian Spaceflyers were considered honored heroes. The thought of any of them suffering such a fate was painful."
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