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companionship.тАЭ

Schaine snorted again. тАЬHeтАЩs undemanding, loyal and knows his placeтАФlike a dog.тАЭ

тАЬAbsolutely wrong. Kurgech is an Uldra, Father is an Outker. Neither wants it any different.тАЭ

With an extravagant flourish Schaine drained the goblet. тАЬI certainly donтАЩt intend to debate anything
whatever with either you or Father.тАЭ She rose to her feet. тАЬLetтАЩs walk over to the river. Is the morphote
fence still up?тАЭ

тАЬSo far as I know. I havenтАЩt been here since you left for Tanquil.тАЭ

тАЬA melancholy occasion which IтАЩd just as soon forget. LetтАЩs go find a twelve-spine devil-chaser with
triple fans and a purple lattice.тАЭ*



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A hundred yards along the beach a path led inland to the swamp at the mouth of the Viridian River and
ended beside a tall fence of steel mesh. A sign read:

CAUTION

MORPHOTES ARE DANGEROUS AND CUNNING! CONSIDER NONE OF THEIR PROFFERS;
ACCEPT NONE OF THEIR GIFTS! MORPHOTES COME TO THIS FENCE WITH A SINGLE
PURPOSE IN MIND: TO MUTILATE, INSULT, OR FRIGHTEN THOSE GAEANS WHO COME TO
VIEW THEM.

TAKE WARNING!

MORPHOTES HAVE INJURED MANY PERSONS; THEY MAY KILL
YOU.

NEVERTHELESS, WANTON MOLESTATION OF THE MORPHOTES IS ABSOLUTELY
FORBIDDEN.

Kelse said, тАЬA month ago some tourists from Alcide came to view morphotes. While the mother and
father joked with a beautiful red-ringed bottle-face at the fence, another tied a butterfly on a string and
lured away the three-year-old child. When Mama and Daddy looked around, Baby was gone.тАЭ

тАЬDisgusting beasts. There should be controls on morphote viewing.тАЭ

тАЬI think the Mull is considering along those lines.тАЭ

Ten minutes passed and no morphotes came up from the swamp to make horrifying proposals. Schaine
and Kelse returned to the hotel, descended to the submarine restaurant and lunched on a ragout of
crayfish, pepper-pods and wild onion, a salad of chilled cress and flat-bread baked from the flour of wild
brown ferris. Luminous blue-green space surrounded them; at their very elbows swam, grew or drifted the