Despair, she had learned, was a self-defeating spiral into inaction andsurrender, two things that were anathema to her. Racks of wartrophies—weapons stripped from the alien dead on far-flung battlefields light-years distant—hung wideapart, his knees slightly bent, staring at her as if she were the only object left in the world. Hewas trembling a little, not out of fear but out of the sheer exhilaration at being in on the kill of thisextraordinary hunt.
The problemwas that the process was a complete enigma to her. But surely it was the sight of Giyan sohideously transformed that caused the look of consternation on their faces. It was a game—ferreting out the collusion, identifying the conspirators, apprehending themjust when it appeared to them that they were on the verge of success. As it did so, it torqued its body away from the ship, taking the gaff and Courion with it.
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