The story Soul Of Me is collected in [[Not A Speck Of Light (Book)]]. The story features the cyborg war dog [[Rex]] that we mainly know from the story [[Ears Prick Up]] and takes place about two million years in the far future. Mankind has been extinct for a bit less than two million years and monstrous animals now rule the Earth. In the story, Rex is battling a massive lizard known as the Gore King. This sentence tells us a bit about its backstory: "A monstrous lizard wants your blood. It is a mutant with genes plucked from the Jurassic, fused with DNA by the same mad scientists who constructed true blue patriotic you." (Not A Speck Of Light, p. ) We know from [[Screaming Elk, MT]] that Rex was engineered by scientist duo [[Toshi Ryoko]] and [[Howard Campbell]]. Did Ryoko and Campbell also engineer a giant, fire-breathing lizard? This might be related to the scientific formula [[Jessica Mace]] is tasked with retrieving in the story [[Swift To Chase (Book)]]: "I got the best of Campbell and Ryoko, as usual. The formula is worthless, lacking a specific strain of Jurassic protozoa, which, let us pray, no one ever resurrects." (Not A Speck Of Light, p. ) In the story, we learn a bit about the future of mankind: "[Mankind is] gone, Rex. An invasion of hollow beings from some dark star wiped them off the map in the year 2665." (Not A Speck Of Light, p. ) I'm not sure who the hollow beings might be that wipe out mankind in 2665, but the first things that come to mind are obviously [[Old Leech]] and [[Children of Old Leech|Its children]]. #Story #Speck