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Flinx's Folly by Alan
Dean Foster
CHAPTER ONE

"He's not deadтАФbut watch out for the winged snake."

As she studied the tall young man lying unconscious on the fast-moving gurney,
the alert eyes of the duty physician at Reides Central narrowed. "What winged
snake?"

The harried medtech guiding the gurney gestured at the slow rise and fall of the
patient's chest. "It's coiled up under his shirt between his left arm and his ribs.
Squirmed in there and hid when we arrived to pick him up. Sticks its head out
occasionally for a quick look around, but that's all. Won't leave. Hasn't bothered
anyoneтАФso far. Almost as if it senses we're trying to help."

The emergency sector physician nodded tersely as she continued to pace the
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gurney. "I'll be sure and keep my fingers away. Why wasn't it caught and
neutralized before the patient was brought in?"

The medtech glanced sideways at her. "Quickref says it's an Alaspinian
minidrag. They bond emotionally with their owners. If you'd heard what I was
told, you wouldn't get any ideas about trying to separate them."

They rounded a corner, dodged an oncoming stasis chair, and headed up another
corridor. "Hell of a way to practice medicine," the doctor muttered to no one in
particular. "Like there aren't enough obstacles put in our way." She leaned
slightly forward over the motionless form, but she was unable to detect any
movement in the indicated area. "It's dangerous, then?"

The medtech smoothly eased the gurney into an empty monitoring chamber.