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"And stop that sniveling or get out. Better yet get out and stop sniveling!" She leaped to her feet and fled. Kennon swore. There was no reason for him to act that way. He had been more brutal than necessary. But the girl no, the Lani was disconcerting. He felt ashamed of himself. He had behaved like a primitive rather than a member of one of the oldest human civilizations in the galaxy.
In other words, kill the flukes before they enter the Lani." "Old Doc never said anything about this," Blalok said. "Probably he never knew about it. I was looking over the herd books last night, and I saw nothing about trematodes, or anything that looked like a parasite pattern until the last few months." "Why not?" "My guess is that he was one of the first deaths."
The habits of a lifetime couldn't be overturned overnight. "Now you have awakened me," he said, "perhaps you'll get out of here." "Why?" "I want to get dressed." "I'll help you." "You will not! I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I've been dressing myself for years. I'm not used to people helping me." "My what a strange world you must come from. Haven't you ever had a Lani before?"
"I'm not a lady," Copper interrupted before he could continue. "Ladies are human. I'm a Lani." "All right," Kennon growled. "Lani or human, who cares? But do you have to break into a man's bedroom and wake him in the middle of the night?" "I didn't break in," she said, "and it isn't the middle of the night. It's morning." "All right so it's morning and you didn't break in.
"Not that it makes any difference," Alexander said, "but it's mainly reptilian. Nothing over Group I. We'll restock with Floran animals." Jordan sighed. "Since that's the way it is, it doesn't make any difference," he said. "But it could have. The Lani are sensitive to things like that. If they thought that they were walking in over a pile of bodies they'd do badly.
"I suppose so but it isn't easy. And besides, Allworth is the only man with feed-mill experience, and he's up to his ears with Hillside Station since that expansion order came in." "I never did get the reason for that. After we complained about the slavery implications and got the Boss-man's okay to hold the line, why do we need more Lani?" "Didn't you know?
"It would be more sure and there are never too many old ones." Kennon shuddered, thinking of the euthanasia chambers on Otpen One. "There will be more from now on," he said. "Outworld can afford it. It'll bend us a little but we won't break and besides, the Lani will need our help for some time to come." Alexander looked at Kennon.
It cost him over eight hundred Ems and nearly two years' time to finish the case, but when it was over the Lani were declared alien, and Grandfather had ironclad discovery rights. "They really put him through the mill. Grandfather furnished the bodies and three court-appointed M.O.'s went through them with microscopes. They didn't miss a thing.
Alexander smiled. "Actually," he said with equal dryness, "I distrust everyone." "If you think this job is easy, you have another think coming," Kennon said bitterly. "I hired out as a veterinarian, not as a nursemaid for a bunch of psychoneurotic humans and superstitious Lani. The place is jinxed, they tell me. Ha! Jinxed! Sure it's jinxed!
Vesian at the hotel, and accompanied Baletti to his mother's. At supper-time, my friend begged Silvia to speak to M. Lani in favour of our 'protegee', Silvia said that it was a much better plan than to solicit a miserable pension which, perhaps, would not be granted.
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