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Updated: September 14, 2025
"I knew you couldn't be just an ordinary person and fight like my father said you did today!" Thal cleared his throat. "Lady Fani " "Hush!" said Fani. "You're a nice old fuddy-duddy that father sent to the spaceport because he figured you'd be too timid to get into trouble. Hush!" To Hoddan she said interestedly, "Now, tell me all about the fighting. It must have been terrible!"
Thal was back at the castle. He'd told her of Hoddan riding up to the spaceboat near another chieftain's castle, entering it, and that then it had taken to the skies in an aura of flames and smoke and thunder. Fani hoped that he might have returned here in it. But she worried while she waited for him to do something. Hoddan did nothing. The spaceboat gave no sign of life.
"I've come back," said Hoddan, "for a few more kilowatts." The red-headed man swore angrily. "Hush!" said Hoddan gently. "The Lady Fani is with us." The red-headed man jerked his head around and paled. Thal glowered at him. Others of Don Loris' retainers shifted their positions significantly, to make their oversized belt-knives handier. "We'll come in," said Hoddan.
At length night came, and Molitor evacuated the Klon Thal, and retired towards the Linth, to defend the bridges of Noefels and Mollis.
Any man may plunder him, any man may kill him at will. But if he resists plundering or kills anybody else in self-defense, he is hanged!" Hoddan stopped short in his descent of the uneven stone steps. "That's me from now on?" he said sardonically. "Of course the Lady Fani didn't mean to put me on such a spot!" "You were not polite," explained Thal.
A bit further to the east it is called the Marienplatz, and further still the Thal, and then the Isarthorplatz, and then the Zweibrückenstrasse, and then the Isarbrücke, and then the Ludwigbrücke, and finally, beyond the river, the Gasteig or the Rosenheimerstrasse, according as one takes its left branch or its right. But don't be dismayed by all that versatility.
Now he'd turned about and issued a belated invitation to Hoddan and his grandfather and their guest the Interstellar Ambassador of whom he'd learned from Thal to dinner at the castle. They could bring their own guards. Hoddan would have refused, but the Ambassador and his grandfather were insistent.
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.
Thal said resignedly: "Ghek probably had fresh horses waiting, so he could keep on at top speed in his flight. I doubt we will catch him, now." "The Lady Fani," said Hoddan bitterly, "has put me in a fix so if I don't fight him I'm ruined!" "Disgraced," corrected Thal. He said mournfully, "It's the same thing." Gloom descended on the whole party as it filled their leaders.
He asked the latitude of the Darthian spaceport. Thal did not know it. He asked about major geographical features seas and continents and so on. Thal had no ideas on the subject. Hoddan fumed. He hadn't worried about such things on Walden. Of course, on Walden he'd had one friend, Derec, and believed he had a sweetheart, Nedda. There he was lonely and schemed to acquire the admiration of others.
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