Synopsis

Booster found himself persuaded to buy a Yukari-pod. These creatures, it transpired, were small beings capable of mimicking the individual present during their final developmental stages – a sort of maternal imprint. However, they possessed an insatiable appetite and reproduced with alarming speed, a disconcerting blend of ravenousness and prolific breeding. Booster’s “fuzzy buddies,” as the salesman marketed them, having taken on surprisingly endearing forms in his demonstration model, quic