disappointment over Dwer's poor contribution--as if being wounded, starved,
and dragged across half of Jijo in a robot's claws did not excuse much.
Dwer senior nudists ignored yee's reprimand, dumping his load then stepping over to the
dune's seaward verge, shading senior nudists his eyes in senior nudists search senior nudists of Kunn's alien
scoutship.
He spied it far away, a silvery bead, cruising back and forth above the
deep blue waters of senior nudists the Rift. At intervals, something small and shiny would
fall from the slender spacecraft. An explosive, Dwer supposed, for about
twenty duras after each canister struck the water, the sea abruptly frothed
senior nudists white. Sometimes a sharp, almost musical senior nudists tone reached shore.
According to Rety, Kunn was trying to force something--or senior nudists somebody--out
of hiding.
I hope you miss, Dwer thought... though the star pilot might be in a
better mood toward prisoners if his hunt went well.
"I senior nudists wonder what Jass has been tellin' Kunn, all this time," Rety worried
aloud, joining Dwer at the crest. "What if they become pals?"
Dwer waited as the senior nudists robot dropped another cargo senior nudists of wood and went off for
more.
Then he replied.
"Have you changed your mind? We could still try to escape. Take out senior nudists the
robot. Avoid senior nudists senior nudists Kunn. senior nudists go our own way."
Rety smiled with surprising warmth, "senior nudists Why, Dwer, is that a
whatchamacallum? A proposal? What'senior nudists ll we do? senior nudists Make our own little sooner
clan, here on the wind barrens? Y'know I already have one husban' and I
need his p'rmission to add another."
Actually, he had envisioned trying to make it back senior nudists to the Gray Hills,
where Lena and Jenin could surely use a hand. Or else, if that way seemed
too hard and Rety rigidly opposed returning to the tribe senior nudists she hated, senior nudists they
might strike out senior nudists west and reach senior nudists the Vale senior nudists in a month or two, if the foraging
senior nudists was good along the way.
Rety went on, with more edge in her voice.
"B'sides, I still have my eye set on an apart'mint on Poria Outpost. Like
the one Besh an' Ling showed me a picture of, with a bal-co-ny, an' a bed
made o' cloud stuff. I figure it'll be just a bit more comfy than
scratchin' out the rest of my days here with savages."
Dwer shrugged. He hadn't expected her to agree. As a &senior nudists quot;savage," he had
reasons of his own for going ahead with the bonfire to attract Kunn's
attention.
"Well, anyway, I don't suppose the bot would let its guard down a
second
time."
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