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Poul Anderson

War of the Wing-Men

Chapter 1

great admiral Syranax hyr Urnan, heir Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet of the

Drakko, Fisherman of the seas of the East, Conductor to the sacrifice, and

Oráculo of the Lodestar, extended its wings and it returned them to join again

with a surprising humming. During a little while, the papers that were upon

the table raised as a result of the air. - No! - it said -. Impossible! It

must have some error. - As it pleases my admiral. - the Executive Head

Official Delp hyr Orikan, inclined with sarcasm -. the explorers, did not see

anything. The rage, was reflected in the face of T'heonax captain hyr Urnan,

son of the Great Admiral, presumed heir. Its superior lip rose until their

canine eyeteeth showed a sparkling reflection that was darkened in its snout.

- we do not have time to per to der with its insolencias, Delp Executive - it

said coldly -. It would advise to my father who got rid of an official who

does not show more respect. Under his distinguished official straps, the great

physical contexture of Delp straightened up. T'heonax captain took a step

towards him. The tails were opened and the wings extended preparing itself for

the fight, until the room filled with its bodies and their hatred. With a

calculation that apparently was accidental, T'heonax took its hand towards the

lateral part of its waist. The yellow eyes of the Delp flashed and their

fingers irritated on his tomahawk. The tail of admiral Syranax was fought

against the ground. It was like the outbreak of a pump. Both young noble

considered the place where they were, and very slowly, muscle after muscle

left these rested under the acariciadoras skins and they relaxed. - it is

already enough! - espetó Syranax -. Delp, your language will carry many

misfortunes to you. T'heonax, already I am getting tired of your

impertinencias. You will already have time to resolve personal your

enemistades when I am grass of the fish. In the meantime, it leaves calm my

few officials of solution. It was a this one explanation done with more

firmness than anyone of which nobody had listened to him long time ago. Their

son and his subordinate realized of which this creature of gray hair, of dim

eyes and rheumatic, had been in certain occasion the conqueror of the Maion

Mavy. (a thousand of wings of enemy heads had shaken of fear from the highest

masts) and still she was his head in the war against the Flock. They assumed

their maximum aspect of respect and hoped to that they continued. - you do not

take my words very literally, Delp - the admiral said to average voice. One

approached towards the bookcase that was upon the table and took a pipe of

long fuze beginning to fill up it with long fibers of dry seaweed of the sea

that took in a tabaquera in its waist. In the meantime its rigid already old

body was lodged looking for the greater comfortableness in a armchair of wool,

and leather. "I was surprised rather naturally - it continued - but am sure

that our explorers still know how to use as a telescope. Descríbeme again and

with all exactitude which happened. - a patrol approximately made its habitual

recognition to thirty miles to the nornoroeste of here - Delp with much

firmness in its words said -. This was was the general area of the called

island... I cannot pronounce this lacking name of the hand of the Gods, Sir;

it means the Flight of the Flags. - Yes, yes - Syranax- agreed you must know

that I have thrown a look to the map sometimes. T'heonax made a face. Delp did

not belong to the cut. This era its disadvantage. His grandfathers had been a

simple constructor of boats, his father never was beyond the captainship of a

simple square. She was later when the family ennobleció by the heroic services

of the Xarit'ha battle, naturally. But they had remained in a rank of little

level. A handful of people who as soon as it could exceed to those of his

lineage. Syranax like answer to these ill-fated days of hunger and misery, had

chosen officials being based only on the demonstrated ability. This way little

the important Delp hyr Orikan had been ascended, in few years to the second

higher position in Drak'ho. Its rise, nevertheless, had not exiled the rudeza

of its education, or, taught like behaving with real noble. If Delp were

popular with the most common sailors he was at the same time the one that take

refook with more misfortune on the part of many aristocrats. For them it

continued being, a parvenú, a coarse one, with the nerve that was reconciled

to a Sa Axollon. Once the protective wings of the admiral were folded with the

death... T'heonax savored ahead of time what it would happen to Delp Orikan.

Serious very easy to find some accusation to its name. The Executive

continued: - I feel It, Sir - it murmured - I did not mean... we are still so

profane in which it concerns this ample sea. The explorers saw this floating

object. He was something since never they had heard previously. Two of them

returned flying to give account to us of it and to request advice to us. I

went to see what it happened by same me. Sir, is truth! - a floating object

six times longer than longest of our canoes, like ice, and still, not even

like ice. - the Admiral shook his gray head. Very slowly he put the spark plug

in the lighter. But he was with unnecessary violence that lead pavilo to the

small wood cylinder of the pipe. Moving it from a part to another one, he

approximated the fire to the cazoleta of pipe and aspired deeply. - the

polished rock crystal more could have an aspect very similar to this device -

Delp was explained -. But not so shining. But not with so many sparkles. - and

there are animals that move in their interior? - Three, gentleman.

Approximately of our stature, or a little greater perhaps, but without wings

and tail. They are not indeed animals... I create. Apparently they wear suits

and I do not believe that the shining device has been conceived as a boat. One

moves between the waves abominably and it gives the impression of not being

able to change its location. - If it is not a boat nor another device come off

some port, then by all the Gods, from where it comes? of the depths? - I do

not create it, captain - Delp with irritation said -. If he were thus, the

beings whom there are in him would be fish or mammalian or... good, able for

swimming he gives all ways. But they are not it, have the aspect of a

terrestrial typical configuration nonapt for the flight, but for only having

four members. - Then, I must be conceited that they fell of the sky - said

with T'heonax ridicule. - it would not surprise to me absolutely - Delp in low

voice answered -. there is no another direction of where they have been able

to come. - T'heonax seated on its heels, with the completely opened mouth. But

his father only moved the head agreeing. - Very well - Syranax- murmured

enchants to me to see that there is a little imagination in all this. - But

from where they came, flying? - espetó T'heonax. - Perhaps our enemies of

Lannach have something to see with this - the Admiral said -. They much more

cover a great part with the world every year, that what we found place setting

in many generations; they have contact with a hundred of Barbarian tribes down

in the tropical and interchange the news there. - and women - T'heonax said.

It spoke in that mixture of desaprobante voice, that was characteristic of the

whole fleet when it watched the clothes of the emigrants. - That does not

matter - Delp responded. T'heonax responded with vividness: - You, puppy that

you put yourself from the low class, you dare... - the tip Closes! - Syranax

shouted. After a pause it continued: - I have made investigations between our

prisoners. In the meantime, it will be better than we send a fast canoe before

this object finds others. - They can be dangerous - T'heonax warned. - Exactly

- his father said -. If he is thus they will be better in our hands than if

for example they found the Lannach'onai and they made with them an alliance.

Dalp, takes the Temnis with an abundant and good crew. And it takes with you

to that type of the Lannach who we captured, how that professional linguist...

- Tolk is called? - a habitual pronunciación hurried in answering the

Executive little showing. - Yes Perhaps he can speak to them. It sends

explorers, once you are there so that fleet has me to current but mantente

sufficient moved away of them with main, until you are well safe that the

beings whom there are in that device, are to us inoffensive Mantente also

moved away until I have ruined any superstitious fear, about the marine

demons, but I know robust if you must be it. We always can request excuses

later... or send the bodies by the hut. Now, it flies! And Delp, voted.

Chapter 2

Desolation had to him catched. Even from this low and balanceante cruise of

the killer sky, Eric Wace could see an immensity of horizon. He thought that

immense dimension of this ring, where the pale sky was with the gray which

they formed the stormy clouds and túmulos, and the great ones you whip of the

waves, were sufficient to terrify a man. The aspect that presents/displays the

death that watchs to us had been faced previously, on the Earth, by many of

its ancestors; but the Earth horizon, was not so remote. It did not matter

that it was to a hundred of years light of his own sun. Such distances were

too great to be able to include/understand them; they became simple numbers,

and they did not scare to which counted in his salary a trip in spaceship per

week. Even the ten thousand kilometers of the opened ocean, to a world of only

a human group, people located there by special mission, did not mean more than

another number. Later, if it lived, Wace would have to dedicate a dying time,

asking itself how to be able to send a message throughout all this empty, but

at the moment too much it was occupied in staying with life. But the total

distance of the planet was something that it could see. This vision to him had

not become present before in its eighteen months of stay, but then it had as

much been isolated psychological as well as physically by a inconquistable

technical machinery. Now he was single in a vessel that sank and was twice but

far to be able to watch throughout the disagreeable waves of you limit them of

the world of which there was it been of the Earth. The cruise of the sky was

affected and balanced from a part to another one under a wild impact. Wace

lost its balance and slipped throughout curved metallic plates. With rage it

was looking for with his hands the cable of the light that whipped the boxes

of food in the navigation turret. If it went towards a side its boots and

dresses they would sink to him downwards like a stone. It was taken hold on

time and it was arranged to rest a little, the inopportune wave slapped its

face as if it was a humid and salty hand. Shaking of cold, Wace finished

fixing and to order the last box and to put it in its site and soon were

crawling towards the entrance hatchway. She was a small one and miserable

emergency door but the stroll of crystal cover on which the passengers had

taken a walk while the pilots of the cruise lead it through the sky, was full

of water and his adorned submerged bronze doors. The water had filled the

engine room now totally damaged, when they sank. Since then the ship had been

taking water around all doublings retaining walls, until all the ship was

together for pargo and last trip to the bottom of the sea. The wind happened

whistling through his debilitated fingers and to traverse of his wet hair,

trying to maintain open you hatchway while that Wace wanted to close it after

him. It had a fight against the typhoon. Typhoon? Demons, no! He had only the

speed of a wind which we had considered normal, but with superior an

atmospheric pressure six times and that whipped like a terrestrial storm, the

Condemned PLC 2987165 II! Damn the same PL, and the condemned Nicholas van

Rijn and still still more condemned Eric Wace to be as crazy as to work by the

Company! Briefly, while it fought against the hatchway, Wace watched over the

foam of the waves, as if it looked for a salvation. It did not descry more

than to a reddish sun and great storm cloud banks, dirty, in the north and a

few points, that probably belonged to the Earth in that they were. Satán hurt

with its rays those native people who did not come to help them. Those rays

would have at least to disappear while human beings suffocated, instead of

being suspended there in the sky rejoicing. Wace closed the hatchway, it

separated quickly of her and it lowered the stairs. On his feet it had to stay

with force against the shaken forts. Still it could hear the waves fighting

itself on the ship and the wind force. - He is everything in order? - Yes, my

lady - so much said as there is it been never. - What it is not much, no? -

Mrs. Sandra Tamarin exerted all her fulgor on him. After this she it did not

mean more than another shade in the dark of the dead ship -. But you seem a

drowned rat, friend mine. They see, we have dry clothes for you. Wace agreed

and it undressed of its wet jacket and it threw to the distant spot its dull

water floods. Ice cream without them had remained - they could not be to more

than five degrees Celsius but it seemed that those clothes had remained during

long time submerged in the ocean. Their teeth castañeaban while it followed it

her by the corridor. He was typical a high and young man of the north of

America, reddish hair, blue eyes and with characteristics of hardness in his

factions who pronounced themselves in all their full body of very developed

muscles. It had begun like apprentice in warehouses at the age of twelve

years, there far in the Earth and now it comprised of the Solar Company of

Especias and Licores in all the planet known with the name of Diomedes. It had

not been an elevation to his rank obtained at a surprising speed. The tactics

of go Rijn were to elevate in category in agreement with the results, that was

just like to obtain that a mentality of fast reflections, a fast revolver and

a clear vision of the things were favored by the opportunity at the ascent.

But had been the one of him, a solid one and good race with a future of

occupations on the less isolated and disagreeable positions, completed with an

executive position and as category back in the world to which it belonged

and... and why served all this if the waters more not knowing were going to

swallow to him in a few hours? At the end of the corridor where the navigation

turret rose, was again the cobrizo brightness of the sun that irritated its

nerves and that were seen in the sky below dark clouds, by the southwestern

part as the day declined. Lady Sandra left its torch and indicated towards a

place on the cover. To the other side were the outer clothes, reinforced,

smooth and protective clothes that he to need it before venturing itself again

in the outside being put under the equinoccial spring. - Ponte all this - it

said as soon as the boat begins to sink, we will have to leave the greater

speed to him. - Where it is Freeman van Rijn? - Wace asked. - Dedic I accept

to the last minutes of work on the raft. He is a very mañoso man with the

tools, right? But in a while a simple worker of the space was given. Wace

shrank of shoulders and hoped to that it went. - I have said to You that you

change - she said. - But... - Oh! - a tenuous smile never crossed its face I

thought about that there was a naked taboo on the Earth. - Good... not

exactly, I create, my lady. But after all you belong to the nobility, and I am

not more than a retailer. - Of republican planets as the Earth arrives the

worse ones from snobs - it said here all we are human beings. And now,

cámbiate quickly. I will become from backs if you wish it. Wace was contained

as rapidly as possible in its clothes. The glad unconcern that it showed, was

an unexpected balsam for me. It thought about the luck that always accompanied

to that goat gordinflona and old that was their fellow traveller goes Rijn. It

did not have straight! The collectors of Kermes speak to a large extent be a

great grouping and their descendants had made the truth like something

inherent in them, specially the aristocrats, after Kermes was proclaimed like

great ducado an independent one during the Rupture. Lady Sandra Tamarin was

almost as high as he and their devoid dresses of winter of form did not get to

completely hide the full silhouette of feminidad. It had a face too much it

last to be beautiful: extended front, great mouth, small nose, pómulos salient

but with great and torn green eyes under very black eyebrows, that were

prettiest than Wace had never seen. Its hair was long, straight, blond ash and

that was gathered in a species of moño at that moment but that Wace had seen

floating freely under a crown the light of a candle. - you are Already ready,

Freeman Wace? - Oh... I feel it, lady. I was thinking. Only a little while and

I am prepared! - the túnica put on him that had to cover all the body to him,

but it left it without getting to close the rack. Still it was left a certain

human aspect in its clothes -. Yes, already I am. I request pardon to him. -

she does not have importance - it became. In the small space in which they

could move, their bodies were close. She watched at the outside towards the

sky -. Those native ones, not yet are here? - That I create lady. Too high for

me to be able to be safe but they they can rise to several kilometers of

eniente height without inconv. - Me I have asked it same me but I have not had

the opportunity to find out. I thought that it could not have flying animals

of the stature of a man, and these Diomedanos has six meters in width with the

extended wings. How? Now ask you this? She sonr ió. - we are only waiting for

Freeman van Rijn. What another thing we can do that to speak of curiosities?

-... we will help... to finish that raft soon Him, but we will sink. - it said

to Me that we had only sufficient batteries for a short trip, so that soon he

will be ready. Please, it continues speaking. The aristocrats of Kermes, have

their customs and taboos, to even die correctly. What another thing is a man,

but an accumulation costumary and taboos? Its dry voice had certain vivacity,

she smiled a little, but he wondered himself to what extent the position that

she adopted was real. To the demon with that farce! he had meant he. We are

sunk in the ocean of a planet, whose life is to us poisonous. There is an

island to a few hundreds of kilometers of here, but we only know its direction

vaguely. Perhaps we pruned perhaps or perhaps no, to finish the raft on time,

to save the fuel tanks and we pruned although he is not safe, to load in her

our rations on time human type; and all this will depend on the storm that is

forming in the north. These were native that watched over our heads does a few

hours, but since then have let be... before us, or... to watch us, any thing

less to offer aid to us. Somebody hates you to him or to the old one they go

Rijn, meant. To me, I am not the sufficiently important thing so that they

hate to me. But van Rijn is the solar company of Especias and Licores, which

means a great power in Liga Polesotécnica, the one that is greatest to be able

in the well-known galaxy. And you are Lady Sandra inheriting Tamarin of the

throne of a whole planet - if you live that you have despised many supplies of

marriage of its declining one and worn down aristocracy, preferring publicly

to look for by other parts a father for your children, so that the next Great

Duke of Kermes can be a man and not a reason for ridicules. And many

cortesanos must fear their access. Oh, if, had meant he, was very many people

who would leave winning, if as much Nicholas van Rijn or Sandra Tamarin, did

not manage to return Era one galantería calculated on the other hand to him to

have offered a trip in their particular ship from Antares where was she in the

Earth doing high in the way which always they were interesting. At least it

could look for commercial concessions in the Ducado. When more, no, as soon as

it could obtain a true alliance; there was too much demon put in him. He (more

intelligent and innocent fort) never would even allow that he rested his heavy

innkeepers on the armchairs of your parents. But I go nomadic, my beloved, had

to quer gone to say he; and the cause is that somebody in the crew of the

boat, had been bribed. The scheme of the bribe well was perpetrated; that

somebody looked for its opportunity. It arrived when you took earth on

Diomedes, to see how it is true and unexpected a new planet, a planet where

until the main continental configurations they had been you lower certain in

the maps, during little the five years that a handful of men had here been.

The opportunity arrived when said myself I of conduciros to you and my old one

endiablado head to those mountains to half of way around this world, that has

been designated like a spectacular scene. A pump in the main generator, a

cruel crew, engineer and disappeared butlers of crew in the blowing of the

death, the head of my copilot destroyed when sinking to us in the sea, the

destroyed radio, and the latest that is of despoliation is going to sink long

before which in Thursday Landing they begin to worry itself by us and come to

look for to us. And in case we survive, it even is that there will be the

small opportunity from which a few spaceships, crossing a unknown world almost

in the maps, twice greater than the Earth, can get to see three human beings

to fly on him? Anyway, it had wanted to indicate, since all our schemes and

adaptations have not lead to us more than to this, would not be of more than

we forgot them during just a short time that we have left and on his place she

kissed to me. But its throat was closed and he did not say anything of all

this. - Therefore? - an impatience note was reflected in the voice of Sandra

-. very you are shut up, Freeman Wace. - I feel It, my lady - it murmured - I

believe that I am not very apt to establish conversation under... hum, these

circumstances. - I feel much not to be described for ofrecerte the consolation

as the religion - she with sharp sarcasm said. A great white wave raised over

the outer cover, and reached the turret. They noticed as the steel and the

plastic shook as a result of the blow. During a little while, while P! water

crowded they remained in a blind person and tenebrous runruneamiento. Soon,

while it was clarified, and Wace saw how far despoliation had arrived and it

asked if they would get to be able to be able to reach the raft of go Rijn,

that was outside of the hatchway, and were a whiteness that blinded its eyes.

First it did not believe it and soon it had not believed it because one did

not dare, but later no longer could deny it. - Lady Sandra - it spoke with

immense well-taken care of; it did not have to notify to shouts to her like a

terrestrial one of more low quality. - Yes? - It did not separate the Vista of

the contemplation of the North part of the completely empty horizon, except of

clouds and light. - There, my lady. Towards the Southeastern. She would

believe... sails, fighting itself against the wind. - What? - She was like a

exteriorización on the part of her. Something that made laugh aloud to Wace. -

a boat or something similar - it indicated who comes in this direction. - she

did not know that the native ones were marine - she in voice said is. - they

are not it, my lady... in the environs of Thursday Landing - it talked back

but this it is a great planet, approximately four times the area of the Earth

surface, and we only know a small part a continent. - Then, you do not know as

they are these sailors? - My lady, I do not have nor the smaller Idea.

Chapter 3

Nicholas van Rijn arrived giving to shouts when hearing those of its fellow

traveller. - Condemnation - it shouted - a boat you said? Better serious than

it was a shark if you are not mistaken, Condemnation! - It was towards the

turret and it watched towards outside through the plastic and with salt water

incrustations. The light was very tenuous and also due to the proximity of the

loaded storm clouds that whipped with the air their face. - Therefore what is

that, where it is that pestilente boat? - There Sir - that sailboat said to

Wace-. - Swift-sailing Powder and bullets in your cement head that is a

boat... no, hopes, condemnation, is a true very rudimentary boat although with

a main mast and everything, ja! and what way to handle has it, it must have a

quite great rudder, that all the Gods help us! A species of boat goes! - What

another thing could wait for you in a planet without mortals? - Wace said.

Their nerves were too sensible for him, to remember the deference that had to

the prince of the merchants. - Hum... that is not more than rescue boats,

perhaps some other species of rare boats, quickly, dame dressed dry, this is

too cold for naked monkeys. Wace realized of which they go Rijn was put in a

pool species and that the bitter water of the sea got to along with cover

until its figure its legs. - I know where they are, Nicholas - Sandra said

going towards the part of the corridor. The boat put every minute more

dangerous than it happened as the water entered through all the parts of the

same one. Wace helped its head to undress of the coverall that took. Naked,

they go Rijn remembered gorila of two meters of very velludo stop and with a

belly, with its backs very bent. Shouting to great voices its indignation and

the cold and the humidity and the slowness of its assistants. But a great ring

flashed in their heavy fingers and bracelets in their wrist and a small medal

of San Dimas hung of their neck. On the contrary to Wace that found more

practitioner a very short haircut and to shave itself very well, they go Rijn

left his oily one and black hair was encaracolase and, to take it long to the

last fashion, also letting grow his acierated moustaches below its nose. It

entered the department of navigation with force and murmuring until it found a

bottle of rum. - Ahhh! I knew that this damn bottle had hidden it I somewhere,

it put the bottle in his lips and gave three or four drinks. Good, very good!

now I feel like a human man and respectable. It gave average return doing to

remember a majestic planet when Sandra returned. The only dresses that it had

found that they could conv enir to him to him, were the his own ones, those of

him, a species of shirt with great bows and adornments in the part of the

figure, trousers with great reflections of silk and averages, shoes and a hat

of pens. - Thanks - he with courtesy now Wace said while seen me, he sees

Perfect the living room and there you will find a bottle of and a box of

Perfect and a small bottle of apple juice. Please, he sees look for them and

soon he sees outside find our guests. - Blessed San Pedro! - the living room

shouted Wace- is already full of water. - Ah? - they go Rijn sighed - then we

needed only the bottle apple juice, now sees express, you do what you can. -

It made crack its fingers. Wace said very quickly. - we do not have time,

gentleman, I must make still all the route of the ship and to look for our

ammunition, these native ones could be hostile. - If they have heard speak

others to us, it is possible - she acceded go Rijn. It began to put his

clothes inner of natural silk -. Brrrr. Five thousand spark plugs would right

now give to be in my office of Amsterdam! - To what santo you would offer

them? - Lady Sandra asked. - To San Nicholas, my christian name... pattern of

the nomadic ones and... - San Nicholas would want it better in writing - she

said, go Rijn had a acierated glance but one cannot speak nor answer the

heiress of a nation, with important commercial concessions to offer. It spent

some time before they were outside. They go Rijn one was worried to leave by

the emergency hatch and had to be pushed. The period of rotation of Diomedes

was only of twelve hours and average and this latitude of 30 North degrees was

still in the side of the winter equinox; thus the sun was arriving at the low

part from the sea at a devilish speed. They arrived at the superior part and

they left drags it of the wind along with cracked the waves on them. They

could not make another thing. - it is not a place for a poor old and fat man -

it whispered go Rijn, the typhoon took the words over him and it made fly over

him and it made fly over the stirred up sea. Better it would be than I had had

left in house in Holland where he is so lukewarm and I do not lose my few last

years of life in squandering it here. Wace directed its eyes towards the

waves. The boat approached. At the same time it could appreciate the masters

of the crew and go Rijn did not abstain in praising them. - I would put to

them in the club Sunday Yacht, condenac ion, yes! and to put them in the next

regatas betting by them. It was a boat of more than thirty meters in length

with a good elaboration in his candles but he did not have the speed and the

prestancia of other boats. - the diomedanos - the tone of Sandra was still in

its ears under the threatening wind and the humming of waters -. You have

spoken with them sometimes during a year and means, no? What we can hope of

them? Wace shrank of shoulders: - What we can hope of a tribe of humans back

in the age gives stone? They could be cannibal poets or or both things.

Everything what I know is the tribe of Tyrlanian that is hunting emigrants.

They always stay according to the letter of their laws; they are not very

scrupulous as soon as if spirit, naturally but is in general a decent tribe. -

You speak its language? - I speak It whichever allows me my to paladar human

and my tecnoterrestre culture, my lady. I do not mean that he can

include/understand all his concepts but I get out of trouble myself. Exhausted

the spaceship moved, heard as the walls crujían and the water that entered on

the inside and at the same time felt like a convulsion under their feet.

Sandra fell against him. Then it could appreciate drops frozen in his

eyebrows. - This does not mean that I will include/understand the local

language - it finished we are more far from Tyrlan than Europe of China. The

canoe was now almost on them, never had been able to arrive more on time. What

it was of the spaceship was going to sink in some minutes, arrived on time,

the sailors threw cords, an anchor of sea and fornidos arms delivered all the

attacks to remove to them from the water. Slowly then a diomedano approached

with a cord. Other two went closely together to their side, of course noticed

being guards. First of them one approached and it watched the humans. Tyrlan

being very to the north, many of their inhabitants, not yet had returned from

the tropical; and this one was the first diomedano that Sandra had found. It

very was wet, it had much cold and incapable to be able to enjoy the presence

and the cruel grace of his movements but despite she watched with much

thoroughness. Possibly it would have to live with this race during long time

if it is that they did not kill it. It was of the stature of a small man, with

a thick tail of a meter of long and finishing in a species of rudder grasiento

and tremendous wings that were folded on their back. Their arms were under the

wings near half of the body and had an aspect that remembered something human,

under their muscle hands full with five fingers. The legs were less familiar,

curved backwards from the feet with four heels that could have almost belonged

to a prow bird. The head at the end of the neck that had been twice more

length than the one of a human, was round, with an ample forehead of yellow

eyes and with membranes under thick eyebrows, a black nose in a face that had

short whiskers and a great mouth with oseznos teeth of the fat dining rooms.

It did not have external ears but they had a full muscle crest in the head

that helped them to control the flight. It covered a brown species to them of

skin; he was really a mammalian male. It dressed two belts that happened

through their "backs" and a third that tied in their figure and pair leather

bags that hung of the same one. It took a knife, an axe of pedernal. Through

the thick dark it was very difficult to guess what class of arms took their

companions, was something long and thin, but that surely was not rifle,

because in this planet there was copper nor no iron. Wace inclined towards

ahead and forced its language to pronounce some syllables of tyrlaniano. -

We... are... friends. Me... he includes/understands... you? All one retahíla

of totally strange words was against him. One shrank and it extended its

hands. The diomedano became through the spaceship and its body inclined

towards dejante while it balanced his wings and their tail, and quickly tied

its own cord to the same place in which they were tied anc those of the

spaceship. - a square knot - it said Go Rijn almost, calmly makes desire me

return to house. In the other end of the cord they began to tie the canoe. The

diomedano returned its face to Wace and indicated to its vessel. Wace agreed

but suddenly account occurred that the gesture was probably without no meaning

and took a very precarious step in that direction there. The diomedano took

another cord and it passed it over him. It indicated towards there to the

humans and made gestures. - Already I include/understand - it said Go Rijn -,

they do not dare to approach more. He is too feasible that their boats explode

against us. We must tie this cord to us around our bodies and they will hoist

to us. Blessed it is Cristóbal, what things must to him make to an old poor

man man with the already too hard bones! - But nevertheless it is left our

food - Wace said. The cruise of the sky still moved and lowered more, the

diomedano moved with nervousness. - No, not - it shouted Go Rijn -. it had the

impression that if shouted enough it could be made understand and penetrate in

the linguistic barrier. Their arms extended. - you never include/understand to

me, species of idiot? Bond more than we suffocate in which it is of our boat

in this pestilente ocean, that to try to eat your food. We will die! We will

have pains belly! Suicide! - its mouth Indicated, gave blows in its abdomen

and indicated the rations. Wace realized of which these demonstrations were

too dangerous. Here they had a planet with oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon,

sulfide and biochemical proteins that formed genes, chromosomes, cells,

weaves, protoplasma to give a reasonable definition, and the human that tried

to eat a fruit or meat of the diomedanos, would later die ten minutes of fifty

any allergic reactions. They were not the appropriate proteins. In fact only

certain foods would cause that the men did not reach chronic diseases like

asthma and other manifestations that could be reached in the air that they

breathed or the water that drank. It had today been during many hours,

reuniting all the supplyings of food that they had in the cruise to bring them

to the boats. This lujurioso atmospheric vessel in which it had arrived with

Goes Rijn was quick to do orgías of "picnic" when they assaulted the desire to

them. It was full of bread, mantequilla sweet, Edam cheese, smoked salmon,

peaches, fruits in conserve, chocolate, pudín, beer, came and God knows how

many other things to allow that three human beings could be there during

months. The diomedano extended its wings doing to hit at the same time them

and fluttering to stay still on. The merchant hoped estólido indicating once

in a while with the finger towards the accumulated boxes. Finally the

diomedano reached the idea or simply it gave with her. But it was very just a

short time that to lose. He indicated towards the canoe, one of his companions

he arrived, he undid the fastenings and he began to transport boxes. Wace

helped Sandra to tie the cord around her. - I am afraid that one will get wet

before very many gives to reach the boat, my lady - he said trying to smile.

She made a gesture of indifference. - Therefore this she is pioneering Bravo

between stars. I will say it to my cut of poets when she returns to house if

she is that I return. When it had crossed and the cord had descended, They go

Rijn made signs to Wace. , They go Rijn was discussing with the diomedano

head. All this was carried out in the true one and real language among them,

Wace did not know it but they had reached a point in which the indignation

shouts were sent from one to another one. As well as Wace had reached the

boat, They go Rijn seated on the cruise of the sky and it did not want to

move. And when youngest, Wace made its arrival to the soaked boat of water,

the merchant had won evidently the battle. A diomedano could raise

approximately fifty kilos in short distances in the air. Three of them

improvised a cord who tied of an a others and hung of her to Go Rijn to

transport it over the water. , they go Rijn not yet had reached the canoe when

the cruise of the sky sank.

Chapter 4

The boat took on her a hundred of native all armed, some dressing helmets and

constructed laminated leather armors, a catapult that as soon as it was seen

through the dark, was mounted in the cover; in addition it had a cabin done of

trunks and covered of marine seaweed that finished by the final part in a

species of carabela of medieval style. In the ceiling two men directed a long

rudder. - It is well sure we have found a navigation boat - he shouted Go Rijn

-, it is not so good but in aim. With a retailer I can speak; with a

pestilente official and bridles of silver in its brain I only can shout. -,

entrecerró the eyes directing them towards the night where the crack of the

storm became sensible. - I am a pecador poor man - it shouted - but this I

have not deserved it. You hear to me? After a little one tied the humans and

one went to them towards a cabin. The boat had begun to run before the

typhoon. The balance, the murmur of the waves and the wind and the

thunderclaps, had made echo in the conscience of Wace. It wanted, to only find

a place where he was dry, to take off its clothes soaked in water and to let

themselves fall in a bed and sleep during one hundred of years. The cabin was

small. Three humans and two diomedanos let site hardly to seat. But she was

lukewarm and a stone lamp hung of the ceiling and threw a tenuous full light

of grotescas shades with the movement. The native one which it habíase found

first with them was present. Its crystal dagger took it in a hand and it on

the lookout maintained it like a lion; but half of its attention seemed to be

concentrated in the other that was supported and was older, with gray tufts in

its hair, and that was tied in one of the corners with a cord piece. The eyes

of Sandra were narrowed. The diomedano with the knife watched through the room

and Go Rijn swore: - You, species of idiot, want to let see to us how is a

weapon? First the native one said something to which it was tied. This last

one made a species of answer with gruñido and soon it became towards the

humans. When it spoke it did not sound what as if said was the same language

that the one of the others. - Thus, then! An interpreter! - he said Go Rijn -.

You, to speak English? Hw, hw, hw! - a blow in its thigh occurred. - No, it

hopes, more bond to prove - it said, and then Wace was expressed in

tyrlaniano. - understand you to Me? It is possibly the only conversation that

we pruned to have together in common. The captive raised his encrestada head

and seated on his hands and their heels. What responded was almost familiar. -

It speaks very slowly, please - Wace said, and then it felt how all the dream

that before watched it left him. Something that it could include/understand

arrived to him. - You do not use a version of the Carnoy that I have heard

before. - Carnoy? Wait for, if, one of the tyrlanianos has mentioned a

confederation of tribes far from the South and who they have such name. I am

using the language of a type of Tyrlania. - I do not know this race, they do

not invernan in our fields. Nor either carnoy like regular thing, but once in

a while does not do it when all of them are in the tropical some arrives at

pas ar this way, therefore - and then he said something ininteligible. The

diomedano with the knife said something, impatient and gave a sharp answer.

The interpreter said to Wace: - I am Tolk, a moohera of the Lannachska. - what

of what? - Wace said. It is not easy human beings to even talk when they must

use a jargon different from a strange language. The dense accent imposed by

human the buccal cords and the ears of the diomedano - that heard to them in a

species of subsound, but did not get to reach the complete conversation; the

declination of the maximum answers was different -, to the aim Wace it needed

a few hours to be able to be made understand in a information of a few

phrases. Tolk was a specialistic linguist of the great tribe of Lannach, was

one of its functions to learn each one of the languages that arrived at their

tribe and which they were many. Perhaps its title could be denominated

heraldo, because their duties included a great amount of ceremonial subjects

and presided over all the messengers of the body. Flock was in war with

draconay, and Tolk had been captured in a recent skirmish. The other diomedano

present was called Delp and been a high official of much rank of draconay.

Wace posponed speaking much about itself, not only by desire to be somewhat

reserved as far as him, but who because account of the so difficult task

occurred that it would be to be made include/understand. It requested to Tolk

that noticed Delp to him that the food which they had removed from the cruise,

as well as was essential for the earth men, could kill the diomedanos. - and

why this would have to say I to him - Tolk with a scorn gesture asked from the

human point of view, he was very disagreeable. - If not it beams - Wace said,

can repel on you when he knows that you did not do it. - It is truth. Tolk

spoke to Delp. The official gave a fast answer. - He says that any damage will

not be done to you unless you want it thus - Tolk explained -, it says that

you must learn his language so that you can speak with him. - What is what it

is saying? - he interrupted Go Rijn. Wace explained it. They go Rijn exploded.

- What? What says? To have left here we until the death and all the demons of

the world? But damn am, already would explain I to him! Wace rose on its feet.

The wings of Delp, fluttered until becoming to put in their site. It showed

his teeth. The door was opened and a pair of guards watched the interior. One

of them took tomahawk and another one took a species of wood saber that

flashed. They go Rijn took the hand towards its revolver. The voice of Delp

spread in the room. Tolk translated: - It says that we have calm. - After to

have spoken a little more and with considerable ones, efforts to be able to

guess at some moments the part between Wace and Tolk, were explained: - he

does not wish badly no, but he also must think about his town. You are

something new. To perhaps you prune to help him or perhaps you are so bad for

him that not you allow marcharos. I have to have time to discover it. You must

yourselves undress of everything what you take above and leave it to its

position. On the other hand he will provide to you with other dresses since

account occurs of which you do not have skins that cover to you. When Wace had

interpreted all this for the merchant Goes Rijn said with surprise: - I

believe that we do not have election at this moment. We could get rid of many

of them. Perhaps we could empower completely of the boat. But we cannot sail

all the way until our earth by we ourself. - Without nothing else that what we

have we would die of hunger by the way. If I were younger... by good San

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