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Leo Frankowski - Conrad Starguard 3 - The Radiant Warrior

Book 3 of the Adventures of Conrad Starguard

Prologue

She unloaded the temporal canister, glanced quickly at her new
subordinate, loaded it with her last superior, and sent it two and a
half million years uptime. One contact every fifty years and that for
only a few seconds. Life this far back was a bitch.

The new arrival was biosculpted into a male version of herself, a
type twenty-seven protohuman. He was barely four feet tall, skinny
and with dark brown skin. He was also naked, since clothing
wouldn't be invented for millions of years.

She switched off his stasis field.

He looked up at the stalactites hanging above him from the cave
roof. Confused, he looked over at her.

"Surprise! You son of a bitch!" she shouted. "Welcome to two and
a half million B.C.! Welcome to a hundred years of dodging
leopards and eating grubs and shivering up in a tree all night, you
bastard, because it's all your fault!"

"What? Where am I?"

"The where is eastern Africa, you lucky boy, but the fun part is the
when! You're in the Anthropological Corps now and you get to do
the exciting work of tracking protohuman migration patterns!"

"This must be some sort of a joke! And you are the rudest and the
ugliest woman I've ever seen!"

"Watch your language, buster! I'm your boss and will be for the
next fifty years. And if you think I'm ugly, just wait until you see
yourself in a mirror, not that we have one."

"What is going on here? None of this makes sense! I was in
twentieth-century Poland, doing my paperwork, when the monitors
came in and I woke up here. And I look like you?"

"Yeah, minus the floppy tits, ugly."

"But... why?"

"Your file says it's a punishment detail for gross incompetence.
You completely failed to brief a new subordinate on security
procedures! She left the wrong door open. And the Owner's own