The Egg Thieves

The Egg Thieves is the sixth story in the first Orphans book, Earth Colony. It originally appeared online as Orphans of Mars # 4. It briefly recounts the first meeting between Lask and Petara, but chiefly concerns the theft of a clutch of triceratops eggs by a group of Daughters comprising Nerrine, Lask, Quasha, and Ress. The party encounters the raptors before finding their query; Quasha duels the mother triceratops in the rain.

It is the author's personal favorite of the Orphans stories.