The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes

Author:Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes [Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry & Barnes, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Alien Contact, Space Exploration
ISBN: 9781982124373
Google: g8B-xgEACAAJ
Amazon: B004Q9TC8C
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2020-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

At the shore was injured prey, dying. Two more prey were climbing the cliff, characteristically clumsy. The enemy must regard these as hers. Mama planned her move, and then—

Challenge. Mama charged across the water, straight at the feebly moving prey. Her jaw clamped on its hind leg. She dived beneath the froth, released the meat at once and swam for her life. Three seconds later she surfaced far downstream, to watch her enemy come to reclaim stolen meat.

The corpse tumbled unmolested. Her enemy was too clever, far too clever for one so young.

Of the two other prey, one had disappeared. The last was halfway up the cliff.

Mama studied the cliff. It wasn’t sheer, but the thought of being stranded there while something came at her was one she rejected at once . . . and retrieved, and toyed with.

She could see most of the cliff, and no danger showed there. Her enemy might be in the water or at the top of the cliffs. She never doubted it was watching.

There were footholds along the cliff. Take any path too fast and she might be stranded in midair, falling toward waiting jaws. Motionless in white froth, with only her eyes showing, Mama chose her path.

Then she moved. Across the seething water. Up along cracks in the rock, now quick, now slow, dancing her route, ready to face death with her footing firm. In seconds, she was halfway up the cliff, poised on a ledge above live prey.

Challenge. Come and get what’s yours!

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