Аннотация
" Betrayer" by CJ Cherryh
To Joan and Buzz: good neighbors, good friends.
Prologue
It was boring sitting by a sick person. But Cajeiri sat. And wondered if bullets counted as being sick.
He remembered the ship and his associates up in the heavens, and he wondered if Lord Geigi would keep his promise and help him find out if his letters ever got to the space station.
He remembered his two lost bodyguards and wondered how they were—if they were even alive.
He remembered Barb-daja, who had hair like nand’ Bren’s, like sunlight, and whom Great-grandmother thought a silly person. But Barb-daja had been very brave, in her odd way. And she didn’t deserve to be kidnapped. He had been, once, but he was clever, and the kidnappers had had no luck at all. Barb was not as tough, and she had no way at all to talk to anybody who asked her questions. She could just say “Bren” and “Toby,” and then somebody might fi...
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