Scorpio Invasion

Chapter six

Chapter six“Ouch!” I said. Then: “My name is Drajak ti Zamran, known as Drajak the Sudden. I would esteem it a favor if you could remember that. Anything else could prove embarrassing.” I added, menacingly: “For those who found out.”

“Very well. If you remember that I am Nath the Ready.”

“Oh, come on! Find a better name than that.”

“Well, yes, perhaps.”

“As to the message, ask Khe-Hi to contact Deb-Lu and arrange to send a voller — an airboat — down here. Send two so the pilot of the one I use can fly home. Have you got that?”

“Airboats,” he said, and the disgust dripped.

“You’d better also recommend that they don’t tell anyone apart from the Lord Farris. Otherwise we’ll have an invasion down here.”

“I don’t quite—”

“Never mind. Now, my lad, do your stuff — and you have my thanks.”