![]() ![]() Each was chatting with a human instead of with each other. ![]() There were also two thranx, looking a lot more at ease than their human compatriots. There were drivers and cargo lifters, alluvial miners, and one independent rarewood logger whom Flinx recognized by the specialized trimming equipment dangling from his belt. ![]() The entertainment center was not crowded. He worried about it all the way to Quayside. It smacked of sadism, questioning, or both. ![]() Her bruises had been evenly dispersed across her body, suggesting that whoever had handed them out had taken care to prolong her consciousness for as long as possible. What kept nagging at him was the apparent professionalism with which the beating had been administered. By the time a body could be located, the local fauna would have made identification difficult, determination of cause of death impossible. At the minimum she should have been wearing boots, a long-sleeved shirt, long-legged pants, repellers, and cooling threads. You never knew when you might have to go outside. No half-experienced prospector or scientist would have been caught dead in the kind of clothing she had been wearing when he had found her, not even if traveling in a vehicle as secure as the crawler. The official information booths were at the bottom of any such list.īecause of her wholly inadequate attire, Flinx went on the assumption that she was a recent arrival to the Ingre region. There were always logical places to make inquiries. Furthermore, it was not necessary to scour the entire community to find the answers he needed. This was only his second visit to Mimmisompo, and he did not know the town that well, but he had learned long ago that information was often available in such places in inverse proportion to the actual population. All the more reason to try to find out how she had come to be beaten up and dumped in the middle of the Ingre. ![]()
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