“The aircar reached them, and from the sound he guessed it was making a leisurely circle around Matavuli. Then, it came closer, and a careful look past the edge of the ledge showed it settling to the ground on the eastern side of the trench, opposite the point where Matavuli had climbed out. The engines spun down, and he heard the sound as two doors opened. There was the faint crunching of footsteps on string grass— “Morning,” a helmet-filtered voice called. “Dushan Matavuli, right?”“You’ve got ...my face on file,” Matavuli called back. “You want something, or are you just going around crushing people’s grass?”“We thought we saw something fall onto your ranch,” the Marine said. “Wanted to check and make sure everything was all right.”Lorne winced. They must have spotted that last, high-arc throw.The big question was whether they’d seen it clearly enough to tell that it was a wrench. If so, he and Matavuli were in deep trouble. If not, maybe they could be bluffed back out of here.“Probably a hawk,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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