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The Little One made no response. The single eye flickered. Perhaps he hadn't understood a word Xris had said.
It didn't matter. Xris knew the truth now anyway.
He found his hammock by the lambent light shining from the cockpit down below, where the computer was awake and working. No one else was, except him. The silence of their sleep was thick and warm.
That wouldn't last long. Harry snored; Jamil ground his teeth. Tycho made a weird bubbling noise in his chest, like a teakettle coming to a boil, while Quong occasionally performed surgery in his sleep, talked himself through the operation. But for now, the plane was quiet.
Xris lay in his hammock a long time, stating into the silence.
CHAPTER 30
One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother... But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows foot--and after!
Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies, "The Thousandth Man"
"Xris," said Harry, shaking him by the shoulder. "Xris. Wake up. We got trouble." Xris was awake immediately. "What? What's wrong?" "We came out of hyperspace and contacted Olefsky on that special channel he gave us. He says that your house is under surveillance. Guys in suits. They're monitoring space traffic. I did a long-range scan. There's some sort of big ship around on the far side--" "Who's got us under surveillance?" Xris tried to wake up
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