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"Foe. You're worse than impossible. And stop worrying about Orvy?Dorvy.
Wore old friends."

"That may well be. The Major has an eye for a well turned ovipositor.
However, if I may so delicately point out, you are decidedly deficient in
that area, however well compensated you may be in others. And I want to
hear you call hum `Orvy?Dorvy'."

"Thanks ... I think" She sipped the pink and yellow liquid the machine had
prepared. "Still, there's a way of caressing the soft spot where thorax and
b?thorax meet that?У

"Aghhhh!" The Tolian covered his eyes. "Disgusting, obscene, profane! No
morals. No morality at all! If it were possible you would consider
intercourse with a rock!"

"All right, all right, calm down! Listen, Pots, I've seen you with a few
under your pouch, you sly tail?tickler, and you?"

"No more! Desist! Cease!" '

"And stop throwing your fuzzy carcass all over the furniture or you'll
build up a charge that'll shock the first diplomat you shake hands with two
meters sunward! If you insist on throwing a fit, throw a stationary one."

Porsupah tried a new tack. He ignored her while he rehearsed the
explanation he would have to present to the Major. Ideas did not come
rapidly to mind.

He was finally making some progress when his thoughts were scattered by a
shrill, protesting voice from the nether depths of tire bathroom.

"And I do so have morals!"



Outwardly a quiet, intense person, Major Orvenalix, the commander of
Repler's tiny military force, was capable of violent displays, of emotion.
These he kept private. It wouldn't do for the members of Repler's governing
council to know to what extremes their stubbornness could push him. They
also did not know that the peaceful commandant held an equal and much more
impressive rank in tire intelligence arm of the United Church.

Repler warranted an intelligence operative of Orvenalix's stature because
of the AAnn Imperial Enclave, several hundred kilometers to the south
across open seas. The Enclave was the vestigial remnant of early
altercations between the Commonwealth and the Empire over planetary claims.
The AAnn hadn't really wanted Repler, but it was a matter of self?respect
that they dispute all territorial claims by other races.