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Show shaped through the body like the cats of Earth, was equippped with a serrated snout fully two feet long and capable of horrific damage. What's more-evolved as the cats had been in the rich CopperCliffs of the Midway Tartars-they were all a phosphorescent green and, during mating season, uttered an earsplitting whistle that could be heard for kilometers around. And, of course, there were the Zetts, the little furry folk denied by the BauerWorlde Earth descendents but nevertheless there, well hidden, a black mark against the good Doctors, by the Holy Mass! Ah, but the Doctors were forced to do that deed so long ago-painful though it was for them-for the sake of those wights who were to come after them. "Aye," said Phrapp, that voracious digger-up of historical data in the BauerNetwork, "the colonists following the Doctors had good reason to put their elders upon a pedestal." "Pray, could we get on with this meeting?" Chu said, showing her teeth. The young AD drew away from her in alarm and Brandon straightened up quickly. "Aye, aye," he said, "seest t h o u . . . " He began pulling more papers out of his brief case. "Thou wast saying about Grant-Sheblem...," Chu prompted, venom dripping evenly from each word. "Ah, thou speakest truly!" Brandon said. "This business..." "There has been something afoot for some TwelveMonths," began Phrapp slowly. "The Doctors. . .and o t h e r s . . . be dissatisfied with the BauerNetwork. " Chu raised her eyebrows. "With the BauerNetwork?" 53 |
