Irsud Author:Jo Clayton Sold into slavery, Aleytys' fate was to beworse than that of the usual slave girl' bondage. For her new owners were insectoid and she was to serve as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, like an Earth wasp's prey, she would be both bearer and food for that which was to come. — But Aleytys was the wearer of the diadem, that creati... more »on of galactic science that linked her nervous system to powers of strange potency.« less