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Leo Frankowski - Conrad Starguard 4 - The Flying Warlord

Book 4 of the Adventures of Conrad Starguard

Prologue

"Whoopee shit!... It's finally happening," she said. "A hundred
years of tracking protohuman migration patterns on the African
plain and it's finally over! It feels so good that I almost don't hate
your guts anymore!"

"Well, don't get too carried away. You deserved every minute of it
for dumping the owner's cousin into the thirteenth century when the
guy didn't even know that time travel existed. And you deserve
twice that for getting me messed up in it. Now get your scrawny
body in the box. Time's running short!"

"Eat your heart out! I'll have my old sexy body back, and I'll take
bubble baths and while you're eating carrion, I'll gorge for weeks
on lobster thermidor and New York cheesecake and--"

He sealed her into the stasis chamber, then watched the readout
over the temporal transport canister count down to zero.

The tone sounded and he opened the canister, pulled out his new
subordinate without glancing at him, and started to slide his
previous superior in. It was expensive to hold the canister in
2,548,850 BC, so doctrine was to make the transfer as quickly as
possible.

She was almost in when something struck him as being very, very
wrong. He took a closer look at the body he had just extracted. He
gagged, retched, and vomited on the floor. Then he switched off
his boss's stasis field.

"--Cherries Jubilee! Hey! What the hell is this? What am I still doing
here? You're holding up the canister, you ass! Do you realize what
that costs?"

"So the owner has lots of money but you only have the one life. I
figured I didn't hate you that goddamn much."

"You're not making any sense; get me out of this time period! I've
waited long enough!"

"Anything you say, lady, but take a look at what just came out of the
canister and then ask yourself if you really want to get into it."

She stared at him and then at the other stasis chamber.