![]() Left unexplained or even examined at this point is why someone so lucky would wind up on a dangerous mission to an unknown destination for unexplained reasons. The other human, Teela Brown, is the product of five generations of ancestors who were all born due to their parents having won the birthright lotter for that year. ![]() The kzin they recruit is Speaker-to-Animals, a very junior member of the Kzinti diplomatic delegation to Earth, with only a title and no name earned yet. Nessus has a plan to alleviate Louis’ boredom.Īt first Nessus is very cagy about what exactly his plan is, but it certainly involves space travel, the Puppeteers’ better, faster hyperdrive they’ve never shared with humans or kzinti, and they need to recruit two more crewmates–a kzin, and another human, one who is the product of Earth’s Birthright Lotteries. This particular Puppeteer has chosen the human-pronounceable name of Nessus. When Puppeteers are speaking in their own language, the effect is often orchestral. Specifically, a Pierson’s Puppeteer, a being with two small heads on snake-like necks, three hooved legs, and its brain housed in its main body, rather than either of the heads. An entirely mundane hotel room, occupied by an alien. Then, when transferring from one birthday location to another, he winds up someplace else entirely. ![]() ![]() It’s his 200th birthday, and he’s using transfer booths to extend the celebration of it for a full twenty-four hours, and he’s really bored. Louis Wu is 200 years old, and he’s bored. ![]()
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