Chapter twenty
The Hai Hikai creates a shield“You great nurdling fool!”
Turko’s anguished cry racked up from the foundations of his being. Now he gave himself up for lost.
Rapechak the Rapa shouted: “Now by Rhapaporgolam the Reaver of Souls! You are a dead man, Dray Prescot!”
Saenda screamed almost incoherently: “You horrible onker, Dray! I’ll never forgive you for this!”
And Quaesa simply burst into a long howling shriek.
The two Khamorros stared as though they could not believe their eyes. One of them, the slightly smaller of the two, even went through a quick routine of flexing his muscles and rippling his strength at me. He looked up at the naked bodies of the girls and, again letting that stupid bravado overwhelm me, I clapped my hands.
“Excellent, nulsh,” I said. “A great perf
