Dinah, Edgar, Herbina, Clint, and Kluckonamus Rex

Really, Dinah had nothing against eggs. It was simply her husband's love of them that bothered her. Ever since that day in the park when he found an abandoned robin's nest...

He took the eggs home with him, incubated them carefully in a shoebox, and a few days later they were the proud parents of hatchlings.

They brought them worms to eat, Dinah and Edgar did. They helped them through the first awkward steps of flight. When at last the day came to set them free, they were both upset. Edgar cried, most unbefitting a military man like himself.

He had become unbalanced after that, buying eggs from the store and incubating them, holdign maternity clothes up to his belly in Wal-Mart when he thought Dinah wasn't looking.

He removed the shelves from their refridgerator, poured out the milk and trashed the butter. He filled the fridge up with cartons and cartons of eggs, whole cases, everywhere they could fit. He called them babies. "We're saving babies."

When she told him that the eggs couldn't hatch, he told her that someday egg hatching technology may advance to a point where we can revive eggs from the store and their hatchlings could go forward in the world. Like cyrogenics.

She left him on a Tuesday, wearing a hat with pretty flowers in it and carrying the suitcase they had taken to Rome. Her sister, Herbina, gave her a ride to town from the base.

She never told him she was pregnant, and raised the child in Tuscon. She named him Clint, after Edgar's father. Youbng Clint would never know about his daddy, but the two would meet 300 years later, after they were each revived ina cyrogenics lab, coincidentally from the same freezer. They awoke to a world inhabitied by billions upon billions of chickens, preserved by the Edgar Winters foundation and hatched when medical science could revive them.

Edgar was givena place in the High Court of the Chicken King, Cluckonamus Rex and Clint was sentenced to death in by incubation.

Neither was ever aware of their shared connection.