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He scratched his chin. "If anyone knows, they haven't told me. It's probably nothing nice." Trigger pondered. "You'd think they'd use facsimiles," she said. "Like Lyad." "Oh, they did," he said. "They did. That's one of the reasons for being pretty sure they're gone. They're nowhere near as expert at that facsimile business as the Tranest characters.
Tranest agents had made several unsuccessful attempts to pick up the plasmoid. She knew that another group had made similarly unsuccessful attempts. The Devagas. She did not yet know the specific nature of 113-A's importance. But it was important. Trigger: Trigger Argee might be able to tell them why Trigger was important. Doctor Fayle certainly could.
It was I. And the Devagas hierarchy is broken, and the Ermetynes run out of Tranest. Two very bad spots, those were! I don't recall having heard what they did to your friend, Pluly." "I heard," Trigger said. "He just got black-listed by Grand Commerce finally and lost all his shipping concessions.
Much less comfortably than she might have, too." "I think she'd agree with you there," Trigger said. Lyad's first assignment after Professor Mantelish came out of the dope was to snap him back into trance and explain to him how he had once more been put under hypno control and used for her felonious ends by the First Lady of Tranest.
But Tranest is also one of the wealthiest individual worlds in the Hub." Trigger watched the woman with some interest as the party moved along a dim corridor, followed by the viewer circuit's invisible pick-up. Lyad Ermetyne didn't look more than a few years older than she was herself. Rather small, slender, with delicately pretty features.
He's a biostructure. A very intelligent one, but speech isn't included in his pattern." Trigger kept looking at the golden-furred nightmare. "How can he see to guard you through all that hair?" "He doesn't see," Lyad said. "At least not as we do. Pilli's part of one of our Tranest experiments the original stock came from the Maccadon life banks, a small golden-haired Earth monkey.
He had a few more crates hauled into the lab, and he's locked himself in with them and spy-blocked the place. May have got something important, and may just be going through one of his secrecy periods again. We'll find out by and by. Oh, and here's a social note. The First Lady of Tranest is shopping in the Grand Commerce Center this morning." "Well, that should boost business," said Trigger.
She wore something ankle-length and long-sleeved in lusterless gray with an odd, smoky quality to it. "Isn't she the empress of Tranest or something of the sort?" Trigger asked. Quillan shook his head. "They've had no emperors there, technically, since they had to sign their treaty with the Federation. She just owns the planet, that's all." "What would she be doing, going to Manon?"
But that's not very likely, after all." "Couldn't be helped anyway," Trigger said. "No. If we knock ourselves out on this job, somebody besides Lyad's Tranest squadron and the Devagas has to know just where the station is." He shook his head. "That Lyad! I figured she'd know how to run the transmitters, so I gave her the chance.
She'd sooner lose Tranest than risk having that happen. She'll be good." "Yeah, probably," he said thoughtfully. "About that substation would you feel more comfortable if we went after the bunch round the Devagas dome first and got us an escort for the trip?" "Sure," Trigger said. "But that would just about kill any chances of doing anything personally, wouldn't it?" "I'm afraid so.
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