“Hill is too steep for the horses to haul up the wagon carrying the stage timbers without risking that they hurt themselves. We’ll unhook the team from the kitchen wagon and double up, though it means a late supper.” “They need the horses to cook?” ...
None of the Natural League delegates were willing to sit next to representatives from the Fosterlings, the Natural’s derogatory term for the worlds aided by the Stryx. But the Drazens and the Dollnicks were engaged in a long-standing feud, the Frunge and the Hortens could barely stand to be in th...
Chastity asked her mother, hopping up to sit on the edge of Donna’s display desk in the outer office of the EarthCent embassy. She twisted her neck in an attempt to read some of the hundreds of overlapping electronic notes displayed. “I wish you and your sister would stop ...
Joe declared, staring out over the towering piles of junk. “I’m not ready to camp out in a dump,” Kelly objected. “I’m still trying to figure out how to explain to our friends that we spent our first week of vacation in a sewer plant and the second week on a ghost deck.” &...
Daniel reiterated. “Your reservation shows that you reserved the full amphitheatre for four human days,” the unemotional Dollnick administrator of the Empire Convention Center replied. “That’s twenty-six thousand creds, which includes the multi-day discount. &n...