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fact, it's a great idea, even considering how much you bothered to
tell me, which I really ain't dumb enough to think is the whole story.
Only thing wrong with it is you're planning on going in without
backup, and that just ain't bright. How you go to groundЧyou go
easy and smooth, making just as few ripples as you can. But you
go with the certain knowledge that no matter how smart you are, or
how low you keep your head, something's gonna happenЧmost
likely having to do with blind stupid luckЧ and you're gonna be
needing back up.

"You gotta suppose they're gonna find you, and be ready for it. You
go in thinking anything different and you might as well take a pistol
right now and blow your own brains out. Save everybody some
trouble."

Such eloquence. Pat Rin raised an eyebrow. "You intrigue me, Mr.
McFarland. I wonder how you became such an expert in going to
ground."

"Someday I might tell you," the big man said, shortly.

It occurred to Pat Rin that he had annoyed his pilot quite as much
as his pilot had annoyed him. He took a fresh hold on his temper
and inclined his head.

"Forgive me, Pilot. I did not intend to cause you pain."

"You didn't," Cheever said, still tending toward short. "Unless you
count a headache." He sighed, gustily. "Look, we been through
this. Covering you is part of the deal between me and Shan. Do me
the favor of believing I ain't dumb enough to go back on my word
to a Liaden, OK? You got a problem with the arrangements, take it
up with him next time you two are in the same room together."

"Ah." Pat Rin considered that. Such solicitude wasЕunusual; his
cousins every one being younger than he, and accustomed all their
lives to seeing him set his own course. What had persuaded Shan
this time that Pat Rin might meet with difficulties large enough to
warrant a Cheever McFarland? UnlessЕ

Shan was a Healer, not a prognosticator. However, Shan's
youngest sister, Pat Rin's cousin Anthora, was a dramliza of some
noteЧincluding among her talents the ability to foretell event. Pat
Rin had once witnessed Anthora in the throes of her gift, and did
not doubt that the ability was genuine. Perhaps she had foreseen
the cold shadow of the clan's danger even as he was preparing to
leave planet, and whispered a word in her brother's ear?

And, in the end, what matter? Pilot McFarland was correct. It lay
well outside the scope of Pat Rin yos'Phelium's melant'i to disturb