5/22/2023 0 Comments The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn![]() ![]() I looked past the Yavanni into the main part of the taverno. ![]() It had been a long day and a longer evening, I was tired and cranky, and the smartest thing I could do right now was get hold of the doorknob digging into my back and get out of there. Yavanni aren't very bright even at the best of times, but when you're outweighed by two to one and outnumbered by three to one, brainpower ratio isn't likely to be the deciding factor. I was still outside the invisible boundary of the personal territories they'd staked out for themselves in the entryway and if I had any brains, I'd keep it that way. Which meant that along with being young and brash, they were also tanked to the briskets. ![]() I stopped short just inside the door, and as it swung closed against my back I caught a faint whiff of turpentine from the direction of my would-be assailants. ![]() From all indications, it looked like that something was going to be me. Big, eager-eyed, and territorial, they were on the prowl and looking for an excuse to squash something soft. CHAPTER 1 THEY WERE WAITING as I stepped through the door into the taverno: three of them, preadult Yavanni, roughly the size of Brahma bulls, looming over me from both sides of the entryway. ![]()
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