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The Jewels of Aptor - (1)
PROLOGUE Afterwards, she was taken down to the sea. She didn't feel too well, so she sat on a rock down where the sand was wet and scrunche…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (2)
"Well," said Urson, "this is a pleasant enough hole." He climbed one of the tiers of bunked beds and pounded the ticking with the flat of h…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (3)
"Maybe," suggested Geo, "he read her mind too, when he first stole it, the same way he read ours." "And if he did, maybe he knows how to wo…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (4)
Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port. Urson was called for duty right after breakfast, but no one bothered either Snake or Geo…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (5)
"Since we've got this job, we've got to trust ourselves and do it right. Let's see if we can put one more of those things around your neck…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (6)
"You seem to know your way around awfully well. Have you ever been on Aptor before?" Iimmi asked Snake suddenly. Snake paused for a moment.…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (7)
Then it stopped, quivering. It boiled, it burned, it writhed, sinking, smoking through the spaces in the naked girder work. It tried to cra…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (8)
"There is not," returned the blind Priestess quietly and motioned them to follow her from the chamber. "Besides, night is coming on and you…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (9)
"I guess we have," Urson said. "Are you a prisoner of Hama?" asked Iimmi. "I am with Hama," said the woman. "We are supposed to secure the…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (10)
He's a kid, she thought, three quarters of the way across. My age, she added, and again a foreign thought attempted to intrude itself on he…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (11)
"Wait a minute," Iimmi said. "Jordde wanted to kill me, and did kill Whitey because of something we might have seen. I bet this was the sam…
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The Jewels of Aptor - (12)
From its course, he gathered it was heading toward the estuary of the river down the beach. He began to run toward where the rocks and vege…