Chapter six“Well, my grizzly graint. You do look a sight!”
So powerful were my emotions that after I’d hacked and hewed a way through the clinging sticky lines I’d simply burst into the control top and clasped her in my arms. I could feel her heart beating against mine. We trembled together, heart to heart, and nothing else mattered in all of Earth or Kregen.
Her face — radiant, radiant! — upturned to mine, that delicious half-smile, so mocking, so tender, so gut-rending, telling me that here she was, in my arms, all meant so much, so much — I managed to steady myself and become half aware of my surroundings.
“By Zair! All this sticky mess — and now it’s all over you!”
She laughed, that laugh that sends razor blades up and down my spine, that makes my knees like bananas. Her brown hair
