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There was a soft murmur, this time sounding sympathetic, and the next question was on an entirely different subject. "The furred four-footers with two tongues what purpose serve they?" "Cloudcats? You must have captured some, yeah." Ondrian hadn't been involved in any of the fighting, but cloudcats roamed all through the Empire. "They don't serve a purpose.
"They had been transported to Ondrian more than ten thousand years ago by beings they called simply the Others, who had discovered the cloudcats' sun was about to go nova. The cats elected to stay in the same stellar neighborhood, but according to them the Others were preparing to embark on a racial expedition of their own, one of considerable magnitude.
That was not all. He had one of the mountain cloudcats with him, and thanks to his Talent so minimal the Order had not accepted him, but there he had managed to establish communications with her. Very rudimentary ones, to be sure, but quite adequate to establish their intelligence. "That was a severe blow to the colony.
We lost some time by it, but it wasn't a disaster. They may even have picked up some of your language by now. They're fast learners." After a few quick words from Hovan, one of his men rose, dressed, and left. Tarlac gathered he was going to tell someone with more authority about the cloudcats immediately, and Hovan confirmed it.
The Ranger was willing to bet cloudcats' antiseptics would have smelled the same, if they'd had any. The cleanliness was as characteristic as the odor, and when a Traiti in pale blue came up to Tarlac and took his arm, he didn't resist. The bleeding still hadn't stopped completely, and the medic turned to Hovan with what sounded, to the Ranger's limited experience, like an angry question.
The cloudcats or perhaps I should say our young explorer's friend Starflower had learned to understand English, and could indicate a yes or no answer to questions. Medart talked to Starflower for several days, and found out that they were in fact not only from a different planet, but from a different system entirely.
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