“You!” he said aloud, walked back around the corner to the baggage, picked up the vodka jug—
And pitched it at the mast.
It stopped in mid-air.
“Babi?”
The jug waddled forward, with two moonlike eyes floating disembodied above it.
“That’s much better,” Sasha said, folding his arms. “I know who might well give it to you—if you asked him nicely.”
A tonguetip licked invisible lips. The jug waddled past him, around the corner of the deckhouse, in search of sympathy.
About the Author
C. J. Cherryh’s first book, Gate of Ivrel, was published in 1976. Since then she has become a leading writer of science fiction and fantasy, known for extraordinary originality, versatility, and superb writing. Her Downbelow Station won a Hugo award. She lives in Oklahoma and was Guest of Honor at the 1989 Balticon convention.
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Copyright © 1989 by C.J. Cherryh.
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All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
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