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"Look, I'm throwing my gun in." The voice was unmistakably, and unexpectedly, feminine.

A long needier landed on the rocks in front of them, clattered to a halt near Flinx's feet.

"I'm coming in unarmed. They threw me out. If I try to go back to Edgedune they'll kill me." A pause,
then a hopeful "Can I come closer?"

"Into the light?" asked Yakus testingly.

"No, no lights! They'd use them to shoot by. There's enough for you to see me."

And that was enough to satisfy Yakus. "Okay, come on in... but keep your hands over your head and
your ringers spread."

A slim outline materialized from the darkness. "My name's Savaya," the figure told them. "I was out
there, in this with them." This last uttered with contempt. "I don't want your gems anymore." She sighed.
"I just want a chance to live and get back home... and back it them."

"Neither of those is a good enough reason for me not to play it safe and shoot you where you stand,"
said Yakus evenly, raising his needier.

The voice spoke again, hurriedly, desperately. "I told you, I'm unarmed. That's my only weapon, there
in front of you."

Flinx kneeled and picked up the needier. "That's what you say."

A touch of amused indifference colored the woman's next words. "Go ahead and search me, if you don't
trust me."

"Watch her close, boy." Yakus put his own rifle down next to Flinx and walked over to the shadowy
form. Several long minutes passed. There were indecipherable murmurings and one muffled noise that
might have been a giggle. Flinx finally tired of it.

"I can't watch the both of you and the riverbed too, Yakus."

"All right, all right," came the impatient reply. The old prospector returned and hefted his weapon.

"Thank you," the woman said simply. "Will you let me help you kill them?" She motioned for her
needier. Flinx gave Yakus a questioning glance. The prospector shook his head, watching the woman.



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 Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 16 - Flinx - Snakes Eyes (SS) (v1.0)

"You can stay. If we live, you live. But no gun."