' king obler is too old to travel very fast , and it 's likely to take a week to sober king wargun up before he can make the voyage from emsat . ' ' let 's not gamble on that , ' sparhawk said . ' we 'll cut across country to demos and then ride directly to cimmura . is vanion still at chyrellos ? ' ' no . he came through demos on his way to cimmura

'' how do i know you 'll do anything ? you 'll probably just call your friends and cart me off to florida . '' the boov furrowed what might have been his forehead . '' do not you want to go to florida ? is where your people is to be . all humans decide to move on to florida

on one table , there were two tiny cagelike devices , each about a foot high . they were about four feet apart on the table , and connected by a cable . '' this is alice , '' gordon said proudly , pointing to the first cage . '' and this is bob . '' stern knew that by long-standing convention , quantum transmission devices were labeled '' alice '' and '' bob , '' or '' a '' and '' b. '' he looked at the little cages

oblivious , they stopped when sparky found a leathery toad -- a veteran of automobile tires and the withering sun -- and had to roll on it , until they realized just what he was doing and made him keep moving . he picked up the late toad to bring along . '' yah , i 'd say something freaky weird is going on with
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