In the distant future, the world is flooded, and humanoid-animal hybrids created in laboratories to be a work force live among the humans, facing the breakdown of their artificial genes. A secret police force masquerades under the guise of a vengeful deity. Valle, twin brother of its chief assassin, has spent his life hiding from his brother, but circumstances threaten to make a confrontation inevitable, while greater threats linger on the horizon. This is a rough draft of a short novel based on some planning I did many years ago but never continued until now. No sexual content, but a few scenes of violence and some body horror throughout.