Run to Chaos by Jack L. Chalker

Author:Jack L. Chalker [Chalker, Jack L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780517095850
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1992-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Page 86

The Corithian got no arguments from the trio below.

Morok had the only clear shot at them, but, raising up to do it, he felt a sudden severe pain in his right leg and fell back down, scrambling now to just keep hold of the wet rocks and keep from sliding all the way back to the bottom.

Less than three kilometers back, on the riverbank below, Jimmy McCray sighed.

"That's it," he said flatly. "Battle's over, and now it's four to four again.

Ugh! That Mycohl woman's ugly as sin!"

"No cracks now," Modra warned.

"Yeah? Wait'11 you see her."

Tris Lankur got to his feet "Let's move up," he told them. "I think it's time we cut ourselves in."

As they approached the hill, McCray warned, "They've made us."

"Which side?" Lankur asked.

"Both of them. Man! That Mizlaplanian telepath is strong] I know she's got us because I felt the probe, but I haven't got a one of them. Not one. The Mycohl on top, though, are fine. It particularly helps that both the non-telepaths up there are Terrans. Coming in strong as a radio signal. They have the Miz bunch pretty well trapped against the wall, unable to go up or down, and they're debating whether or not to keep it that way or press on now that they're in the lead."

Tris Lankur gave the mental command to his suit to turn on the all-frequency hail and auto translator. The last simply took his words and translated them into the two interstellar commerce languages of the other Empires.

"This is Captain Tris Lankur calling all foreign parties ahead of us. You are operating illegally in our territory and represent a substantial risk to ourselves and our interests here by your presence and particularly by your fighting. We demand to know your identities and your purpose and goals for being here."

There was a pause, and then Gun Roh Chin sent, "Are you really suggesting, Captain, that this is Exchange territory?"

"It was reached through a legally claimed Exchange world on the recognized frontier in Exchange space," Lankur replied. "Since the only way you could get here was by violating our frontier, this is in fact Exchange territory under all treaties."

"That would make all the demons citizens of the Exchange," the Durquist commented dryly, for local broadcast only. "Oh, dear. I never really thought about that."

A sudden, different voice broke in. The translator didn't really put any emotional emphasis on words and phrases no matter how the original sounded, but somehow the voice sounded a little meaner and more arrogant anyway.

"Lankur, you are a freebooting team with no governmental authority stuck here in this mess just like we are," Josef noted. "If we all get out of this, you might be able to file a proper complaint against us, but if you didn't, nobody would even miss you."

"Bravado," McCray commented. "While his telepath is feeding him the information file:///F|/rah/Jack%20L.%20Chalker/Chalker,%2...Marathon%202%20-%20The%20Run%2

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