“The traffic is heavy here, but it often is. They give you no ship names.”
“No.” .
“That is alarming.”
“Vigilance going in,” Khym said.
“That’s the one,” Haral said, “I wonder about.”
“Sure thought that son would bolt,” Tirun said.
“Skkukuk. What will they do?”
“They will surrender. Slowly. Testing sfik against sfik.
Withholding the shiplist may be the station’s test of the hakkikt.”
“Or Sikkukkut’s order?”
“He has no motive to withhold it. The ships about us obey him. No, it’s a test of him. It will be an expensive test if the are not careful. Kukottki-skki pukkuk. Sikkukkut may interest himself to find the one who withstood him. Do you wish to gain sfik at Sikkukkut’s expense? Discover this fool on tin station and kill him before Sikkukkut does. Captain, I id you, it is a waste-‘”
“Priority!” Chur yelled, simultaneously with Tully. “Sys tern entry, ecliptic 23-45, V z-70-aught factor 9-”
Pyanfar’s heart stopped. A lurking ship was on a nine-C startup and headed in; a kifish beacon carried its image t
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