Blindsight

"But you are flightless birds on a remote island. You are not do much successful s isolated from any real competition."

"The acquitted mass was apparently processed internally and shunted to apical growth zones; judging by infinitesimal changes in the artifact’s allometry, it grew from the tips of its branches."

"So I pretended for a moment, assessing the woman in the corner booth: gangly and glorious, a half-dozen ethnicities coexisting peacefully with no single voice dominant. "