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Updated: June 5, 2025
The stun-pistol hummed, though its noise was inaudible through the yells of the charging partisans of the Lord Ghek. Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "Get back up on your horse or I blast you and leave you for Ghek's men to handle when they're able to move about again! Get back on that horse! One two " The man got back on the horse. "Now go on ahead," rasped Hoddan.
The instant the fingers loosened upon her wrist she broke away and dashed toward the hills. Simultaneously a warning whistle broke from Ghek's lips and in instant response the workers leaped to their feet, one almost in the girl's path.
The Lord Ghek would like it that way. He's locked up in a room that's particularly inflammable." The last statement was a guess, only, but Ghek's retainer looked horrified. He bellowed. There was a subtle change in the bitterly hostile atmosphere. Men came angrily to help load the spare horses.
There were novelties hydroponic fruit, for instance and they'd gloomily stuffed themselves. They were almost resigned, now. Memory of the loot he'd led other men to at Ghek's castle inclined them to be hopeful. But they looked uneasy when he stopped where they were gathered. "Well?" he said sharply. Thal swallowed. "We have been companions, Bron Hoddan," he said unhappily.
The partial looting of Ghek's castle, alone, would have made him a desirable leader. But a crew of seven, returned from space, had displayed currency which amounted to the wealth of fabled Ind. Nobody knew what Ind was, any longer, but it was a synonym for fabulous and uncountable riches. When men went off with Hoddan, they came back rich.
"They ride for Ghek's castle!" Hoddan said angrily: "Put out that light! Do you want to advertise how few we are and what we're doing? Here, ride close!" Thal flung down the torch and horses trod it underfoot as the knot of men rode on. Thal boomed: "The pickings should be good, eh? Why do you want me?" "You've got to learn something," snapped Hoddan. "Here! This is a stun-pistol.
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