When the people running the lab decide your family are disposable test subjects, how far will you go to prove them wrong?
Veronica is an orange Maine Coon who helped pioneer the nanotechnology that gave her sapiency, raises a blended litter of kittens and puppies, and still finds time to harvest single cells under a microscope. When a callous new professor announces plans to destroy the entire Nano-Sapiens program, Veronica does what any good scientist and mother would do: she forms a plan. With two graduate students, three translation collars, a server case full of children, and an Admiral's calendar invite, she sets out to prove that her family's lives are worth defending in a court of law.
This is not a story about animals learning to be human. It is a story about people, who happen to have fur, claiming the rights they have already earned.