5/13/2023 0 Comments The Lion Game by James H. Schmitz![]() ![]() Bruth paled.Ĭaptain Pausert, of the Republic of Nikkeldepain-everybody but the prisoners smiled this time-was charged (a) with said attempted interference, (b) with said insult, (c) with having frequently and severely struck Bruth the Baker in the course of the subsequent dispute. ![]() Some provocation could be conceded for the action taken by Bruth, but not enough. Said foreign citizen had also used insulting language-the captain admitted under pressure to “Fat and Ugly.” Said citizen had admittedly attempted to interfere as Bruth was attempting to punish his slave Maleen-also produced in evidence-whom he suspected of having added something to a batch of cakes she was working on that afternoon, resulting in illness and complaints from fifty-two of Bruth’s customers. ![]() “Bruth the Baker was charged with having struck a citizen of a foreign government on the head with a potentially lethal instrument-produced in evidence. This turns into a scuffle, and both men end up in the hands of the planet’s justice system. Maybe this would be less creepy if Pausert wasn’t drawn with that ‘stache.Ĭaptain Pausert, a merchant spacer, finds himself discomfited on a world where he’s just unloaded his cargo by the sights and sounds of a man menacing a young slave girl. ![]()
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