“Creideiki! Keepiru was busy as well. Then a glance told him that it was too late for remedial measures. It was sort of restful, tiny wavelets lapping against the smooth skin above his eyes. “Well, if we can’t outrun them I guess we’ll have to try an ambush.” Tsh’t stared at her. Soon he could make out a dusky funnel. Her ears popped, and she shook her head to clear away the numb feeling. He had come to relieve the dolphin linguist early because Sah’ot hated working with the robot probe! Every few seconds, recessed nozzles cast a fine mist over the unconscious dolphin. * Close-up Lock-up * Go the other way—than up! In the darkness, it became purely a battle of wits and of sound. The chimp planetologist would not be satisfied! The citation was too obscure! “It will take me a few moments to worm through Streaker’s comm system without being detected. Under Keepiru’s command the robot moved to the edge of the pool. If she attempted a rescue, she risked the only hope of the crew back at the Seahorse. Of course he couldn’t, she chided herself as she ran down the hallway. There had to be hope, as well. It was in this area that the killer-weed grew. You must…” Moki clapped his jaws in disgust. You ETs and your stars … Oh, Daddy was a leader, He dreamed, yet still told lies. “Are you so sure?” “You would incite the crew to disobey the legal ship’s master?” Takkata-Jim sounded genuinely shocked. The one standard technique of uplift humans had taken unmodified from the Galactics was to ingrain a revulsion of patron-murder in their clients. The Seahorse was his plan. Now it was still. You must guard your safet-ty!” Toshio ground his teeth. It should be the other way around. It came from the comm link on his harness. All the stories he had heard about them came to mind. You came a lot closer that time.” Suessi shook his head and wondered what kind of lunacy had ever driven him to become an engineer. Herbie was a cadaver—their one tangible prize from the derelict fleet. Now, after Makanee’s last operation, he seemed much more attentive. Wattaceti went over, and I p-p-paid no heed. Its tiny brain and transmitter hadn’t been destroyed, and Keepiru had not suffered the jolt that a sudden cutoff could send to a connected nervous system. They may be damaged, but I think at least two of the lead ships will catch up with us about the time we reach the gasss giant.” Gillian looked at the holo tank. I’ll turn on the sonar so others can find us and come for air while the waves pass.” He flicked a switch, and immediately a low series of clicks emanated into the surrounding water. It glanced at the radio beside it. The wall speaker let out a brief, sloppy squeal of Trinary, followed by a longer report in loose, high-pitched Anglic. The giant swam up nearby and exhaled a loud spurt of bubbles. Still, there was something defiant in his eye. SEE the enemy’s illusions … listen lightly to his lies … use the Yin and the Yang … the twin salvations … logic to pierce Mara’s veil … and faith to sustain … Dennie moaned and rolled in the dust a few meters away. Should the opportunity arise. When you’ve found it, put on a breather. Toshio No, Dr. Dart. I’ll show ‘em this planet is so unique they’ll … they’ll rename it after me! It was impossible, but it resonated along with the Soro rhythm! Will you do as I ask? Tom summoned his reserves. He had had all he was about to take from this one. Though she was working twelve hours a day, helping Dennie with the Kiqui, Gillian couldn’t help feeling guiltily that she was taking a vacation. The sonar-speak crackled. They’ll all see that he, at least, was no token! Okay? With her elbows on the desk, her face settled down upon the palms of her hands. Even her questions about Tom Orley were brushed aside with abrupt politeness. “Hikahi,” she sighed. The face grimaced in the dim starlight. The only thing it can’t do is float back up. Shall I turn down the light?” “Yess, please. Except for a few races, such as the Kanten and Tymbrimi, the Galactic community as a whole seemed stuck in that kind of a mentality. They join in any war of enforcement declared by the Galactic Institutes, whatever the cause, and are often cited for use of excess force. Creideiki was used to taking his rest in zero gee, suspended in moist air. The sky had been filled with flashing lights. After dark he sat by a driftwood fire, weaving tough strands of vine into a pair of large flat fans, somewhat like tennis rackets with loops on one side. “Number two—after that, turn around yoursself! Then Lucky Kaa shouted. Charlie finally admitted that he had scrambled to the top of a tall tree just before the island blew. Have Keepiru dive at once! “Allatime gettin’ trapped by stereotypes.” Gillian She shook her head slowly. The derelicts might or might not be linked with the one legend which binds all oxygenbreathing races in the five galaxies.” “It could be we found huge bits of flotsam of almost no historical significance, then.” “True. Toshio is a bright young man, but he has no poker face. I knew it. He looked down toward a noisy altercation at one of the food stations. - - WHO DARES BOTHER + Sah’ot moaned as he tore the robot link free. Without her, how could Creideiki manage? We’ll do our best. But I don’t suppose we have to understand. Who now will do me the honors, before I grow erratic and become a hazard to the clan? And that bright one over there could be a blue supergiant. He hated the two nubby little “fingers” at the tips of each of his pectoral fins—which they said would someday lead to full hands for his species. He looked away, feeling somehow he was letting her down. Streaker hums like a starship once again. Jill brought you folks a monofilament cable, so you can stay in touch with the ship. Makanee sighed and turned away. Gillian had once spent a summer reading ancient space-romances from pre-Contact days. “Aw, Dennie,” Sah’ot sighed. Early in the voyage she had had to threaten dire measures to get him to call her “sir”—or the anachronistic “ma’am”—only in every third sentence, rather than every other word. The risk is too great, now that the Galactics have arrived.” The chimp frowned. Usually one or two fen were in this outer dressing room, wriggling into or out of equipment. There was a tremendous detonation, then the sea began tossing him about like a rag doll. “Haoke … dead! We must try to make our offer of compromise to the Galactics, but…” “But what?” Metz shrugged uncertainly. She looked up at him, surprised by the wryness of his remark. He didn’t doubt their efficiency with those weapons they carried. Already one of the armed Stenos guards, presumably carefully picked by the vice-captain, looked mutinously jubilant and chattered hopefully with Wattaceti. With any luck, the crew back at Streaker would turn the micro-branch unit over to Creideiki or Gillian without undue attention. If he got Streaker away from Kithrup with her crew alive! Krat lounged on a cushion of vletoor skin. They’d call her when they knew anything, Takkata-Jim had said before signing off. I’m afraid Makanee and I are going to kick you out soon, as penalty for having such an iron constitution.” “As opposed to one of bismuth or c-c-cadmium?” Hikahi spluttered a razzberry-like chuckle. “Team two concentrates on harvesting. You shall rest, then join me for supper. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! At least ten vessels! You Soro fight well, for vermin. Toshio was still surprised to find that others stopped and listened when he made suggestions; his opinions had been routinely solicited. Now that was all over. Keepiru commenced a series of leaps, gyrating to shake loose of his unwelcome rider. I think now they don’t even care if you report back anymore.” Toshio heard a soft growling sound to the south—a low whine that rose and fell unevenly. He’s been driving Toshio and me until our flukes droop, and he has top priority on this line.” In the small holo image Gillian looked very tired. “Are you all right?” Hikahi asked as she came by. Akki The monofilament cable was almost invisible against the rubble and ooze of the sea floor. As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. By my count I guess that means Hist’t hitched a skycurrent. Suddenly she noticed that everyone had gone. We may betray our allies, agreed. Gillian Triple damn! “Ah, Gillian…” he began, “I want you to know that I’m very glad Tom is alive, although this tardiness bodes poorly. He cast a look at Dennie, even as he rolled over to offer one of his ventral fins to Keepiru’s mouth. The water was strained and sieved clean by biological filters. “But all that’s finished! Just in time, he thrust out of the curling, downward circulation and sent the tiny craft flying along the direction the current wanted to go. But always he looked out for one thing, a symbol that could be found everywhere in the Five Linked Galaxies—a rayed spiral. “You don’t want to know.” Metz saw Takkata-Jim’s determined expression. Pre-spaceflight humans, in their primitive, neurotic societies, must have felt the same way about nudity. She listened to the little Forski sing of the coming victory—of the glory that would be Krat’s when she captured the Earthlings, and finally squeezed their secrets out of them. “We can’t lose anything by trying. “They were really only teeny little A-bombs, honest!” Hikahi The need to run quietly kept her speed to little more than it might have been with a sled. His own line represented a drive to emphasize language ability, rather than tool use. It looked like a large medallion hanging from a neck-chain. “Please Makanee!” Metz called again. Let Mr. Orley be finished with his job up in the north, and land up there while I’m below. “Where there is mind…” It would only take a few minutes to find out if it was in working order. She purred—not like a housecat, but with the feral rumble of a leopardess. I learn from your frustration! Need swelled within him as he concentrated. The captain smiled reassuringly. “I’m going to want to take Keepiru with me,” Gillian said to him.

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