Dinah moved back to the sand close to her brother, no longer reacting as badly to its heat.

"Hopefully it'll be all of the good stuff, though that's just about everything, my love. But they seem fine in the heat as I figured they would from you. I do wonder when they'll start talking. Humans are supposed to be about two to three Earth years I think."

Lockheed moved closer to his lovely princess and was admiring how beautiful the Barsoomian was in her bathing suit when there was a little yelp of surprise from Martin. Whilst they'd been talking he'd dug his hole further and appeared to have stumbled across a small crab which had attempted to nip him. But what was unexpected was how Martin instinctively flapped out of the hole with his tiny wings and onto the sand from alarm. It was clear that the effort wasn't natural just yet but Lockheed, after been at first alarmed, was overjoyed to see one of his children have the ability to fly ready sooner than he thought.