"Ken," said Reith with a wry laugh, "if that's your idea of a happy ending, may Bákh preserve me from an unhappy one! Have you seen Svoboda around? You know, my opposite number on this next tour? I've got to find him ..."
The End
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THE CLASH
The Krishnan stepped forward in a fencing stance. Reith bored in, lunging, thrusting, and parrying. The swords clanged and whirled, spattering raindrops. Once Reith slipped on the mud but, straining every sinew, recovered before his antagonist could take advantage of the error.
Reith feinted at the Krishnan's midriff. The Krishnan whipped his blade around in the parry in seconde, turning his hand from supine to prone. But Reith had been well drilled in the counter to this maneuver: he doubled and drove his sword into the Krishnan's chest ...
L. SPRAGUE de CAMP
CATHERINE CROOK de CAMP
THE BONES
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