By C. J. Cherryh

Nobody at Meetpoint Station had ever noticeable a creature just like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully used to be the only surviving member of his corporation -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was once a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, till his get away onto the hani send The delight of Chanur.

Little did he recognize whilst he threw himself upon the mercy of The satisfaction and her workforce that he positioned the total hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the knowledge this fugitive held may be the spoil or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.

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That doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful with it. " It looked from Chur to Geran as the two closed in, grew distressed when Chur took its arm to get it on its feet. It pointed back at the machine... wanted that, its chance to communicate. Perhaps there was more it planned to say, in the symbols. Surely it expected to go back to the 42 The Pride of Chanur washroom corner. Pyanfar reached and touched its shoulder from the other side, touched the book it held and pressed its hand the tighter against it, indicating it should keep the book, the best promise she could think of that might tell it they were not done with talking.

Doing precisely what they were doing; and very probably a nervous kif would play the surmise he had already staked his reputation on. They would start hunting shadows once they reached that conclusion, having questioned a few frightened mahe. They would fan out, prowl the system, stop miner ships, ask close questions, probably commit small piracy at the same time, not to waste an opportunity. The station could do nothing— a larger one might, but not Urtur, which was mostly manufacturing and scarcely defended.

It was in the—" Hilfy broke off, in the general stillness of the place. "Give it here," Pyanfar said, holding out her hand without looking away from the Outsider. Hilfy gave it. Pyanfar opened the book, turned the pages toward the Outsider, whose eyes flickered with bewilderment. She bent, discarding her dignity a moment in the seriousness of the matter, and pushed the manual across the tiles to the area the creature could reach. It ignored the open book. Another ploy failed. Pyanfar sat still a moment, arms on her 38 The Pride of Chanur knees, then stood up and brushed her silk breeches into order.

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