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Updated: June 14, 2025
This was about as far from the steaming islands of Xecho as a man could imagine. "The demon graz prepare for battle." Asaki nodded toward the distant crackling. Captain Jellico laughed. "Supposed to be whetting their tusks, eh? I wouldn't care to meet a graz that could produce such a display by mere tusk whetting." "No? But think of the reward for the tracker who discovers where such go to die.
"Which testifies to a trail out of here, fairly well-traveled, and some kind of a usable landing space not too far away," Asaki replied. "And that could very well serve us." "But they know we are here," Tau pointed out. It was Nymani's turn to laugh.
If we could only find out how! Here are no drums, no singing none of the tricks to tangle a man's mind that he usually uses to summon his demons. So without Lumbrilo, without his witch tools, how does he make us see what is not?" "That we must discover and speedily, sir. Or else we shall be lost among the unreal and the real." "You also have the power. You can save us!" Asaki protested.
"But that is almost fifty miles from the swamp, on this side of the mountain!" "He was hunted and he fled as you promised," Asaki said to Tau. "You made strong magic, off-world man." The medic shook his head slowly. "I but turned his own methods against him. Because he believed in his power, that same power, reflected back, broke him. Had I been facing one who did not believe...." He shrugged.
Yet in outline the spire was very similar to that outcrop from which the real rock ape had charged them the day before. Asaki exclaimed in his own tongue and slapped his hand hard against the stock of the needler. "We saw that and so again we saw an ape also! Had earlier we been charged by graz or jumped by a lion in such a place, then again we would have been faced by graz or lion here!"
At that moment Dane doubted his ability to make any more leaps from island to island. And it would seem Tau shared his discouragement. "I don't suppose you could discourage our friends on shore there with a few more shots?" Asaki shook his head. "We do not have clips enough to settle a whole herd.
Jellico wriggled toward the bush in answer to a low call from Asaki, and the others made a worm's progress in his wake. Under cover they found the Chief Ranger readying his needler. "Poacher camp here," he explained bleakly. "And they know about us." "A perfect end to a stinking day," remarked Tau dispassionately. "We might have guessed something of this sort was waiting."
It sang on in a high-pitched voice, and Dane noted that those of the audience nearest the stools where Asaki and the captain were seated now watched the Chief Ranger and the space officer. He felt Tau tense beside him. "Trouble coming...." The warning from Tau was the merest thread of sound.
The Khatkan turned slowly, resting the weapon across his forearm. "I do not deny that, spaceman." "Then matters here are indeed serious " "They are so serious," Asaki interrupted, speaking not only to Tau but to the other off-worlders as well, "that what happens now may mean the end of the Khatka that I know. Lumbrilo is the most dangerous game I have faced in a lifetime as a hunter.
Its nose was bent up and back, obscuring the forward view completely. However, the pilot had made a miraculously safe landing considering the terrain. Ten minutes later, the pilot restored to consciousness and the gash in his head bandaged, they held a council of war. "The com was off, too. I did not have a chance to report before the crash," Asaki put the situation straightly.
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