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"Let me check the translation grid. Hmnun, they're not too
busy right now. Yes, ma'am, they should be able to have it for
you in roughly half an hour."

"That's fine."

FIRST NIGHTER 7

"Very good, ma'am. I'll have it delivered to you when it's
ready."

As he rang off he saw that the woman had tabbed a gener-
ous tip into his account. Lekvich Tor grinned broadly.

Bzzzt!

Lekvich Tor nearly flew to the console. "Hotel Andromeda,
concierge."

"Lekvich?"

"Yes?"

"This is Ranee. They were cleaning the ladies' room so I
went down to deck five. But that one was filled with
Mantarian troglodyte nurses and I couldn't hear myself think
straight so I'm on deck nine now. It shouldn't be much
longer."

She hung up before he could say a word.

Lekvich shrugged philosophically. She would be back soon,
surely.

Bzzzt!

"Hotel Andromeda, concierge.

"Yes, I've just conceived a child."

"Beg pardon?"

"Are you deaf? I said I've Just conceived a child. Ten min-
utes ago."

Lekvich Tor scanned his memory but could not find any
appropriate reference or response from his training. Ner-
vously, he improvised.