"FWLS4" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

clients to pay you a share off the top of any profits made on the
sample. I doubt they'll be making a amount-of-something-which-
is-equal-to-its-weight-in-1000-stacked-PlainsBeasts on the deal,
though, so I don't think it'll help your finances any."

"I was thinking of taking it out of your fur."

"Mine's a bit mangy. I doubt any hunter would be proud to
claim they whacked me."

(By the way, language note, 'whacked' is not translated.
The verb 'to kill' in Yttian is 'whack' Go figure.)

"I wasn't thinking of whacking you," he said. "Just having
you experience sensation-of-one-thousand-papercuts-on-your-
genitals."

"Eep," I said. "Well, while I'm sure that'd be a fun sense
to record, I can't say I'd enjoy it. Look, I'm a busy man, I
really have to be going--"

"You're not going anywhere, jkky."

I can't really translate 'jkky', but let's just say it's the
Terran equivalent to compacting every insulting curse word that
exists into one neat little syllable. Anger taking control
before my common sense kicked in, I decked the guy one across the
jaw.

When I realized A) He's not out cold and B) That was a very
stupid thing to do and C) his two meatheads were charging at me,
I grabbed my sensitizer briefcase and dived under the legs of one
of the brick wall goons.

I knew these streets like the back on my ear, and the chase
was over fast. Hunks of muscle like that just don't move real
fast, no matter how built up their legs are; there's too much to
move. Since I'm a nimble, gangly sort of guy, it was just a
matter of hopping over the nearest fence and diving into a sewer
pipe. I'd never make a jump like that without my handy-dandy,
all purpose Yttian legs.

I scrabbled along the metal pipe, carefully avoiding the
fetid sludge that flowed along the base of the pipe, and tuned in
to see where my fan club had gone. It was hard to hear anything,
with all the echo going on in this pipe, but no sounds of violent
shouting could be heard.

I've wasted enough time, I thought. I'd better get to that
assignment and stop toying with the locals. The list was a bit