Foster, Alan Dean - Taken 02 by Foster Alan Dean

Author:Foster, Alan Dean
Language: eng
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You have same feeling, I think maybe.”

“No,” Walker told him firmly. “I’m not interested in what you’re interested in, though I would someday like to be head of the company I used to work for. If that can be called all-conquering, then I’m all for it.

What I am interested in is getting home. Every day that my friends and I are restricted to Niyu is one day more we haven’t moved any closer to getting home. It’s becoming abundantly clear that in order to get the kind of assistance we need from official Kojn-umm sources, we need more powerful allies among its governing elite.” He eyed the general meaningfully. “The greatest military commander in the history of modern Kojn-umm would certainly be one candidate for that list.”

Saluu-hir-lek’s mouth expanded. “Strategy and tactics. If I were the individual of whom you theorize, is true I might be able to help yous with yous’ wishes. But I not that. Cannot be that.” He looked away.

“You been on Niyu long enough know that one realm grow too powerful, others combine to put it in its place.”

“If its power is readily apparent, yes,” Walker agreed. “But there are many ways to camouflage intent.

To disguise one’s true objective. That’s something I used to be very good at.”

Saluu-hir-lek turned sharply back to face the human. “You have idea? One, or many?”

“One that is many,” Walker told him, intentionally cryptic. “Interested?”

The Niyyuuan general remained wary. “This very chancy subject for open discussion. You make morning meal first. Bring you friend along if he feeling better, please. I interested also in his opinion.”

“The gist of my idea does not fall within his area of expertise,” Walker replied.

“I understand that. But I interested in his opinion all the same. You not object to presence during discussions of you’s own friend, do you?”

“No, of course not.” Walker had no choice but to concede the point. To have argued it further, he sensed, would have killed the general’s interest in such a touchy subject completely.

As it was, Saluu-hir-lek was clearly pleased. “Always better eat first. Not good discuss sedition and duplicity on empty stomach.” Putting a long, limber arm around the human, the general escorted him off the rampart and back into the depths of the fortress.

“Well, what do you think?”

The waterfall at whose base they had gathered was not high, but it was noisy, which was what Walker was after. As always, their appearance garnered the usual stares from passing Niyyuu. None approached the foreign visitors to the nature park, however. Visiting aliens were accorded the same privileges as locals. That extended to privacy.

And if common courtesy was not sufficient to discourage infringement, Braouk’s intimidating presence was sufficient to keep the otherwise intrigued at a distance.

Espying a shallow sandbar, Sque slid gratefully into the water. She remained there with only the upper half of her body breaking the surface, forcing her companions to settle themselves around her. No one

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