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Then they disappeared from the cargo hold of the flagship and reappeared inside the control room of a shuttle orbiting the planet of the descoladores.
Wang-mu looked around at a room full of strangers. Unlike Admiral Lands's starship, this craft had no artificial gravity, but by holding onto Peter's hand Wang-mu kept from either fainting or throwing up. She had no idea who any of these people were, but she did know that Firequencher had to be a pequenino and the nameless worker at one of the computer terminals was a creature of the kind once hated and feared as the merciless buggers.
"Hi, Ela, Quara, Miro," said Peter. "This is Wang-mu."
Wang-mu would have been terrified, except that the others were so obviously terrified to see them.
Miro was the first to recover enough to speak. "Didn't you forget your spaceship?" he asked.
Wang-mu laughed.
"Hi, Royal Mother of the West," said Miro, using the name of Wang-mu's ancestor-of-the-heart, a god worshiped on the world of Path. "I've heard all about you from Jane," Miro added.
A woman drifted in through a corridor at one end of the control room. "Val?" said Peter.
"No," answered the woman. "I'm Jane."
"Jane," whispered Wang-mu. "Malu's god."
"Malu's friend," said Jane. "As I am your friend, Wang-mu." She reached Peter and, taking him by both hands, looked him in the eye. "And your friend too, Peter. As I've always been your friend."
Chapter 16 -- "HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY AREN'T QUIVERING IN TERROR?" "O Gods! You are unjust! My mother and father deserved to have a better child than me!" -- from The God Whispers of Han Qing-jao























































































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