"Foster, Alan Dean - Drowning World" - читать интересную книгу автора (Foster Alan Dean)

УA Del Rey bookФЧT.p. verso.

eISBN 0-345-45034-5

1. Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization)ЧFiction. 2.
Life on

other planetsЧFiction. I. Title.

PS3556.O756 D76 2003

813'.54Чdc21

2002026279

v1.0




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J emunu-jah didnТt want to have to take the time to rescue the
human. If it was foolish enough to go off into the Viisiiviisii all by
itself, then it deserved whatever happened to it. Kenkeru-jah had
argued that it was their mula to try to save the visitor, even if it was
not spawned of the Sakuntala. As he was ranking chief of the local
Nuy clan, his opinion was listened to and respected.

Jemunu-jah suspected that the much-admired High Chief Naneci-
tok would also have argued vociferously against the decision to
send him, but she was still in transit from an important meeting of
fellow Hatas and was not present to countermand the directive. As
for the war chief Aniolo-jat, he did not seem to care one way or the
other where Jemunu-jah was sent. Not that the cunning Hata-
yuiqueru felt anything for the missing human, either. All the war
chief wanted, as usual, was to conserve clan energies for killing
Deyzara.

Perhaps it was Jemunu-jahТs cheerless expression that caused the
two Deyzara passing him on the walkway to edge as far away as
they could without tumbling right over the flexible railing. The
speaking/breathing trunk that protruded from the top of their
ovoidal hairless skulls recoiled back against the edges of their flat-
brimmed rain hats, and the secondary eating trunks that hung from
the underside, or chin region, of their heads twitched nervously.
Their large, protuberant, close-set eyes nervously tracked him
from behind their visors. Another time, Jemunu-jah might have
found their excessive caution amusing. Not today.