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Updated: June 11, 2025
I think I'll settle for another planet, now." "My father will make you rich," said the girl proudly. "You saved me from being married to Ghek!" Hoddan shook his head. "I've got my doubts," he said. "He had a scheme to import a lot of stun-pistols and arm his retainers with them. Then he meant to rush the spaceport and have me set up a broadcast-power unit that'd keep them charged all the time.
It is natural enough to act hastily at such times. But still How many did you kill?" "None," said Hoddan curtly. "I shot them with stun-pistols I'd just charged in the control room of the landing grid." Don Loris sat up straight. "Stun-pistols?" he demanded sharply. "You used stun-pistols on Darth?" "Naturally on Darth," said Hoddan with some tartness. "I was here! But nobody was killed.
By now, he was consistently identifying himself with the latter. He took to carrying one of the thick-barrelled stun-pistols always, now. Alone, he practiced constantly with it, drawing, breaking soap-bubbles with the concentrated sound-waves it projected. It was silly, perhaps, but it helped him in his dreams.
If fifty, we may live to ride away. If more, we may even reach Don Loris' castle. How many?" "We'll see what we see," said Hoddan dourly. "But I'd better charge these other pistols. You can come with me, or wait. I haven't killed these men. They're only stunned. They'll come around presently." He went out of the warehouse, carrying the bag which was again loaded with uncharged stun-pistols.
I sent him to bring this Hoddan here this afternoon, not to massacre my neighbors' retainers or rather, not to not massacre them. A little blood-letting would have done no harm, but stun-pistols " "He was protecting somebody he was told to protect," said Fani. "And this other man, this " "Hoddan. Bron Hoddan," said her father irritably. "Yes. He was protecting himself!
Men came out of it and took the horses. Hoddan dismounted, and it seemed to him that he creaked as loudly as the gate. Thal swaggered, displaying coins he had picked from the pockets of the men the stun-pistols had disabled. He said splendidly to Hoddan: "I go to announce your coming to Don Loris. These are his retainers. They will give you to drink."
He'd had a reasonably sound plan of action for the pirating of a space-liner, even though he had no weapons mounted on the ship nor anything more deadly than stun-pistols for his reluctant crew. But he considered it likely that he could make the same sort of landing with this yacht that he'd already done with the spaceboat. Which should be enough.
In only one respect were they worse off than when they arrived. Some stun-pistols were empty. Hoddan searched the sky and pieced together the star-pattern he'd noted before. "Hold it!" he said sharply to Thal. "We don't go back the same way we came! The gang that ambushed us will be stirring around again, and we haven't got full stun-pistols now! We make a wide circle around those characters!"
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