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.Jan and Stacy both snickered.Miranda expelled a gusty sigh. Unfortunately, that s all too true. Deborah sent her a sharp look. Don t tell me you were thinking about offering pussy for goods? Miranda glanced at her. At this point I d be willing to offer just about anything to get a few things shit!Even a fucking comb! I begin to understand why the natives were so willing to trade for beads andblankets. God! What I wouldn t give for a blanket! Stacy exclaimed.Miranda turned to look at the others. Well, ladies, we ve hit bottom.After generations of owning theone commodity men would do almost anything to possess we now find ourselves in the position of Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlowning the one thing no fucking body is interested in.Any suggestions? The three women looked at each other and shrugged. I don t know what bug people, that already seemto have everything they could possibly want, might be interested in, Deborah said finally.They watched while Khan and the Vernamin who d come out of the ship settled to haggling.Realizingafter a little while that it looked like it might be a lengthy discussion, Miranda sat down to wait.Her ankle,despite the demands she d made on it, hardly bothered her anymore unless she walked too much orstood too long with her weight on it.It still wasn t healed, though, and she was too tried in general tostand.Khan, it seemed to her, looked as if he was pretty worn down himself.She strongly suspected that was their fault.From what she d been able to see, all of the Hirachi workedfrom dawn to dusk.She d noticed, though, that Khan, and any of the others that took time to help them,seemed to make up the time lost by working later and starting earlier.She felt guilty about it.She hated that they were all so helpless that they were an added drain on theHirachi, but she didn t see that they could do anything about it except try to learn hownot to be a burden.She didn t think that was something they were going to be able to achieve anytime soon.The hut, pathetic as it was, was their greatest achievement so far and although they were all proud tohave it, it was so far from actually being comfortable that it hadn t made a big difference in the quality oflife.It was just as well, she thought wryly, that they had to work so hard just to survive.It didn t leave alot of time to be miserable about anything else.She was miserable on a personal level, though, whether she consciously acknowledged it or not.Shehad been since she d learned that the Hirachi weren t land mammals as they were, but primarily seamammals.When she d finally broken down and told everyone, they d been as stunned as she had been,but she didn t think very many of them had actually carried through with their thinking on the discoverylike she had.Maybe becausethey hadn t been thinking, as she had, of trying to bridge the species gap and looking fora significant other among the Hirachi.A surprising number of their group had actually seemed delighted to discover the Hirachi were mermen.She supposed it had appealed to the romanticism in them.It might have her, too, except that she was too practical not to see that it presented huge problems.Shecertainly wasn t disgusted by it.The discovery hadn t diminished their appeal to her by one iota.Unfortunately, she had a bad feeling the same couldn t be said for the Hirachi, not when they werealready appalled by the diminutive size and weakness of the Earth women.Deborah, whom she d discovered with a great deal of delight, was a lab technician, or had been in herprevious life, had pointed out that they were clearly mammals, regardless, and there were strongindications that they were closely enough related to the Hirachi that it was possible the trader hadn t liedto them.Not that being a lab technician would be helpful to them per se, but it meant Deborah had a strongbackground in science that could be useful. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlIn some ways, she was almost sorry for it, for that matter.She didn t know if Deborah knew enough tobe a reliable judge of the situation or if she was just as hopeful as everyone else seemed to be.She supposed, though, that it didn t matter much.The Hirachi had been friendly and helpful & andpretty much kept their distance otherwise.It wouldn t have been so bad if they dseemed to be keepingtheir distance to avoid temptation, but she hadn t gotten that impression.It seemed a lot more likedisinterest to her.Except for the comment Khan had made the day he d volunteered to help them gather the things for theirhut.She d spent a lot of time wondering since then if the comment had carried any personal connotations,if he d been flirting with her even causally.He d said that she was beautiful not that she was or ever hadbeen and she didn t have to have a mirror to know she looked like pure hell now but he d been sooffhand about it it was hard to take it as a compliment or even interpret it to mean he thought so.She d thought hemight be hinting, at the time, that he d consider being her lover, but, except for theother comment when she d asked him point blank what constituted a desirable woman, he hadn t madeany attempt that she could interpret as a come on.He was always polite and helpful not especiallyfriendly.Teron and Gerek and even Adar were a lot more friendly, and also polite and helpful
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IndexHieber Leanna Renee Percy Parker 02 Walka œwiatła i mroku o Percy Parker
Lensman 02 Smith, E E 'Doc' First Lensman
Swann S. A. Wilczy miot 02 Wilczy Amulet
Benzoni Juliette Fiora 02 Fiora i zuchwały
Kaplan Andrew Skorpion 02 Zima Skorpiona
Anne Stuart Czarny lód 02 Zimny jak lód
Gauze Jan Brazylia 02 Brazylia mierzona krokami
Bidwell George Michał i Pat 02 Synowie Pat
Stuart Anne Czarny lód 02 Zimny jak lód
Buck Carole I żyli długo i szczęÂśliwie