The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn

Author:Michael Flynn [Flynn, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction,
ISBN: 978-0-7653-0099-7
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2007-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

If Bhatterji’s life was a performance, he could not logically object to an audience. Akhaturian and deCant watched amazed from their nook as the fighters struggled past them. The Least Wrangler would have darted out to separate them, but deCant, more sensibly, restrained him and contacted the bridge where, it being the early morning, Gorgas had just taken the watch from The Lotus Jewel. Then, the wrangler called Dr. Wong.

But Wong was already in the spinhall, bag in hand. “Stop it!” she cried, stepping from the slidewalk. “Stop it this minute!”

It would not be fair to say that the doctor broke up the fight. It was more that the fight had come to an end of itself. Bhatterji had finished meting out and Corrigan had finished accepting, and by good fortune the two had finished together. The acting first slumped to the floor and, to the surprise of Wong and the others who were now arriving, one by one, Bhatterji reached out a hand to help him up. Corrigan pulled himself up along the arm and his eyes met those of his assailant.

“I wouldn’t hurt her,” he said in wounded reasonableness. “I would never hurt her.”

Corrigan’s tone startled Bhatterji, who looked more closely at the deck officer and studied him with a frown. “Then see that you do not,” he said. “In any way.”

Corrigan understood. “No,” he said. “Of course not.”

By this time, Gorgas had arrived from the bridge and had stepped between the two, though Corrigan and Bhatterji continued to stare at each other with a strange and puzzled wonder. The Lotus Jewel had arrived too, at Gorgas’s heels, but hearing that last exchange between her friend and her onetime lover, turned abruptly and fairly ran into the slidewalk exit.

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