The End of the Matter (2002)
“Tse-Mallory was smiling his thin little smile, which masked more enthusiasm than it ever revealed. The Eint Truzenzuzex made clicking sounds in High Thranx indicative of greeting mixed with great pleasure, then added in Terranglo: “Again to see you is a delight, young Flinx.”
September gazed open-mouthed at the evident reunion; then his brows furrowed in concentration and he simply watched and listened.
“I am warmed mentally and emotionally, though I cannot be physically,” announced the thranx philosoph. “So I must . . . ask you to remove your arms from . . . around my b-thorax . . . so I can . . . breathe.”
“Oh, sorry,” Flinx apologized, removing his arms from around the old insect. Once again the eight breathing spicules pulsed freely. “But what are you doing here, Old friends? Of all the places in the universe, this is the last that I’d expect—”
“Everything in its proper time plane, lad,” Tse-Mallory broke in, making calming motions with both hands.
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