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Reunion by Alan Dean
Foster
CHAPTER
One
When bad people are chasing you, life is dangerous. When good people are
chasing you, life is awkward. But when you are chasing yourself, the most
simple facts of existence become disturbing, destabilizing, and a source of
unending waking confusion.

So it was with Flinx, who in searching for the history of himself, found that he
was once again treading upon the hallowed, mystic soil of the spherical blue-
white womb among the stars that had given birth to his whole species. Only, the
soil he was treading presently was being treated by those around him with
something other than veneration, and a means of sourcing the information he
hoped to uncover was still to be found.


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Tacrica was a beautiful place in which to be discouraged. Sensitive to his
frustration, Pip had been acting fidgety for days. An iridescent flutter of pleated
pink-and-blue wings and lethal, diamond-backed body, she would rise from his
shoulder to dart aimlessly about his head and neck before settling restlessly back
down into her customary position of repose. As active as she was colorful, the
mature female minidrag was the only thing he was presently wearing.

His nudity did not excite comment because every one of the other sun and water
worshipers strolling or lying about on the seashore was similarly unclothed. In
the human beach culture of 554 A.A., the superfluity of wearing clothing into the
sea or along its edge had long been recognized. Protective sprays blocked
harmful UV rays without damaging the skin, and frivolous, transitory painted
highlights decorated bodies both attractive and past their prime. It was these
often elaborate anatomical decorations that were the focus of admiring attention,
and not the commonplace nakedness that framed them.