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Show Commendiums!" * "Here, here," said Phrapp, alarmed. "We all be friends now!" Dr'Anya, who had finished her drink, agreed hastily. "Aye, aye," she said. "Friends we be indeed." "Let us all," said Phrapp, accepting a beaker of water from Nell, "have a cool drink of water." He lifted his beaker in salute. "Aye," said Dr'Igor with a fearful glance at the Seljuk giant and accepted a beaker as well. Nell clucked and blinked and looked around the table, her head in the Questioning Mode, her hands up and out in the Expectant position. "We must needs all have a cool drink of water," said Rollanda, smiling at length and clapping the scowling Hoqqam on his dusty back. "Aye," said Brandon and Chu in chorus, seconded by the little Zett, Lodyan, and the mystified Erica and Pym. Dr'Anya nodded her head at Nell, who whirred off to fill some beakers. Hoqqam, on his side, glared at the pile of ashes on the grass. "Ye great horned ass," he hissed, addressing the absent bird, "I curse the day I laid eyes on ye." Then he accepted a beaker of water, too, and drank it down with the rest. 366 |