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It would last, at least, until Holati finished his explaining. There was no really good reason not to include Major Quillan in it. "Ah, Puya!" Professor Mantelish exclaimed, advancing on the tray as Quillan set it on the table. Mantelish seemed to have forgotten about plasmoid experiments for the moment, and Trigger didn't intend to remind him.
Quillan put one of the glasses in front of her. "And we shall drink," Mantelish suggested, with a suave flourish of his Puya, "to your great-grandmother!" "We shall also," suggested Major Quillan, pulling a chair up to the table for himself, "Advise Trigger to take a very small sip on her first go at the stuff." Nobody had invited him to sit down. But nobody was objecting either.
"Mantelish is coming along plus around eight tons of his lab equipment. Plus his special U-League guards." "Oh?" Trigger picked up the Puya glass. She looked into it. It was empty. "Moving where?" she asked. "Manon," said the Commissioner. "Tell you about that later." Every last muscle in Trigger's body seemed to go limp simultaneously.
She settled back slightly in the chair, surprised by the force of the reaction. She hadn't realized by now how keyed up she was! She sighed a small sigh. Then she smiled at Quillan. "Major," she said, "how about a tiny little refill on that Puya about half?" Quillan took care of the tiny little refill.
"Maybe," the driver suggested from the front, "what Miss Argee could do with is a shot of Puya. Flask's in my coat pocket. Left side." "There's an idea," remarked Trigger's companion. He looked at her. "It's very good Puya." "So choke on it," Trigger told him gently. She settled back into the corner of the seat and closed her eyes. "You can wake me up when we get to the Commissioner."
"You will oversimplify grossly, of course, but it should do for the moment. At a more leisurely time I shall be glad to give Trigger an accurate description of the processes." Trigger smiled at him. "Thank you, Professor!" She took her second sip of the Puya. Not bad. "Well, Mantelish was dosing this plasmoid with mild electrical stimulations," Holati went on.
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