Tarimenloku's main screen showed the alien vessel almost as quickly ashis instruments found it, showed it newly emerged at a distance of onlytwelve miles. That had been a week earlier. Per contract. He tilted his head back, eyebrows raised.
The sultan had given command of the flotilla to a brevet admiral, IgsatTarimenloku, making him its commodore. Yesterday, he said huskily, five marines were murdered and ninewounded, by a cowardly ambush. The T'swa warrior, in fact, has no victory nor defeat, no enemynor any rival. He'd been at it only briefly when someone knocked.
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