Dangerous Vorav (78/170)
Dangerous Vorav Vorav, which is world 155 — exploring was going more quickly, as the Company got used to all the tools and techniques — was a beautiful place at first sight. It had a sun, unusually for...
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«Well, that was an odd little interlude,» Itharieth wrote to me, since of course a dragon queen has nothing better to do than to make small talk with far-flung biologists. (Which, in my case, is true...
View ArticleAgain, Dangerous Vorav (80/170)
Indeed, every scout and scientist had met a Knight at some point that day. Itharieth was the only one who had met children, and the only one who had any sort of extended conversation with them....
View ArticleSo much for Vorav (81/170)
History does not record who was chosen to convey the challenge to the knights, nor why the challenge was delayed by four days. I, rationally, think it was Katamerces, who was the company’s chief...
View ArticleHyxy Removed (82/170)
The cyclone was, however, reopened for a few minutes a week later, to send a minikin and a roasted princess back home with a very polite note. The Company did not wait for a response. ⁂ “Hyxy, you...
View ArticleShards of Scorjerak (83/170)
Shards of Scorjerak World 156 was a Predictable Platelet, a flaming pentacle a gross-miles on a side circled by a cage of fire. Nothing lived there. World 157 was a Predictable Platelet of a...
View ArticleSongs of Scorjerak (84/170)
Questhraum’s Songs of Scorjerak took more than a week to compose, but less than two. It was published in the Grand Draconic as quickly as Hoven typesetting could manage that task.(ਲ) We found a dragon...
View ArticleMore Scorn of Scorjerak (86/170)
Jaraswat cornered Roroku in the Hangar of Science that evening. “Where were you today, when all true scholars were investigating Scorjerak?” “My husband had need of me,” mumbled Roroku. “Oh, did he,...
View ArticleJaraswat and the jawdidj wippixiw wax-andrews (87/170)
Roroku yawned a delicate-fanged yawn before presenting her results. “Oh! Atharis, master of physics, has told us that Scorjerak is a energy-increasing world, like so many Platelets. They don’t have a...
View ArticleSupreme Hierophant Orders Entire Reprisals Against Apostates. (88/170)
“You are utterly whomulow; there is no other word for it in any language! The researches will proceed as I have ordered!” ⁂ They didn’t. Yarenton and Atharis flew straight to an airport and inspected...
View ArticleKyspert (89/170)
Kyspert The first argument was about whether Kyspert had gravity at all. “I tell you, all I see is lumps of twinkling stuff floating in the sky. And when I say ‘sky’ I mean ‘everywhere’,” said Gemuse....
View ArticleMixing Thunbaẑorbo and Cĥẚriptaaan idioms (90/170)
Roroku on Kyspert Jaraswat addressed the scholars from atop a hillock on Base Camp. “Our preliminary scrying and scouting suggests that Kyspert is the sort of world we are looking for. The kysps are...
View ArticleRoroku vs Roroku (91/170)
«Jyothky, are you there and have you a moment to speak with me?» asked Roroku. «I am here, in the sense of wearing the venstroma. I am also here in the sense of curled up with my husband, resting my...
View ArticleRoroku on Kyspert (92/170)
So Roroku was the third of us (or fourth if Gemuse counts; the minikin certainly does not) on Kyspert, and the one that I followed the most closely, because she was much more entertaining than the...
View ArticleRoroku on Kyspert 2 (93/170)
«It said, and I quote, ‘Clumsy sky-eels! Are fermented dwa-nel bugs making it drunk?’» «Kysp isn’t that sophisticated so far, is it?» «I had best go chat with this fur-pin and learn all about their...
View ArticleRo-Ro-Ku on Kyspert
«It said, and I quote, ‘Clumsy sky-eels! Are fermented dwa-nel bugs making it drunk?’» «Kysp isn’t that sophisticated so far, is it?» «I had best go chat with this fur-pin and learn all about their...
View ArticleWicked Plots of Mayor (98/170)
The doctor expressed polite disagreement, by means of a gesture of curled tentatails. “If this is the plot, it is very clumsily done. Coming to a new scoral naked and peniless, feigning amnesia and...
View ArticleTravels on Kyspert (99/170)
Travels on Kyspert It was cooking time! Ro-Ro-Ku had been charged with cracking nuts, using an ingenious hinged-board nutcracker, and after that she was to wash and chop succulent leaves. Dze-Ts-Kwy...
View ArticleWhere is Heaven? (100/170)
Where Is Heaven? For Kogoans, the realm of the gods is the Boiling Ocean. This is orthodox. This is also obvious. As one approaches the Boiling Ocean, plant life becomes more lush and varied. The...
View ArticleAre the Gods Cooking the World? (101/170)
Are the Gods Cooking the World? Ko-Go-Nwa preached that Kyspert is getting hotter, because of the sinning of kysps, and that unless all things are purified, all things will burn. Now, Kyspert does seem...
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