By Robert Asprin
Whilst a catastrophe approximately destroys the universe, survivors from the planet Earth rigorously rebuild their replaced global, which has turn into prone to moving time traces and demanding situations the wits of mischievous Skeeter Jackson.
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It is merely my hope that you might mend your morals to match. You are a dear friend to me. " Skeeter blinked. " He began to laugh. " His grin melted a little of the icy fear in Marcus' heart. "Okay, I'll promise I'll try to be a good little tourist in Rome, all right? I still want to do that betting, but nothing more devious than that. " Marcus sagged a little in his chair. "Yes, Skeeter. " Feeling more hopeful than he had in months, he was forced to apologize for having to abandon his friend so soon after coming to a somewhat uneasy understanding of one another's intentions in this odd friendship.
Downtimers often came an with the strangest ideas, many of them quaintly useless, others so eccentric they passed beyond the understandable into the misty, magical realm of things like what made the gates work and what did women really want, anyway? He'd given up on both, long ago, avoiding stepping through any more gates than absolutely necessary and taking his flings where he could find them, not very discontented when he couldn't. He didn't feel proud about his ignorance; business, however, was business.
She was, however, the second or third deadliest person on station, depending on whether Kit Carson had showed up at the range for some shooting practice most recently, or whether Ann had (since Kit's last target practice) hit the gym mats for a series of sweat-building katas and bone-pounding sparring sessions against Sven Bailey, the station's widely known Number One deadliest individual. Skeeter felt ridiculous, towering over a woman who terrified him down to his cockles. Uh-oh. What do I do now?