by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 30, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 20 Chapter 7 Goth needed to think it through, to come up with a plan. In the meanwhile, she had the inconvenience of force-cuffs, and of having to stay hidden in no-shape. First things first. She wanted their knockout drops, and...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 27, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 19 Goth could see that it was more than just a question of getting out of the cabin. They could hardly run this rig without at least some of the crew of the ship, if not the captain, being in the know. And in space… well, the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 25, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 18 Chapter 6 Goth embarked on the sheen clipper Sheridan. It was racing to get its cargo of fresh sheen to Morteen, the provincial capital of the Empire’s southwestern sector. Morteen, when she looked it up was described as...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 23, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 17 Once they got up to the ridge line the full blast of the night wind nearly froze him again. But at least they were walking downhill now, and Nady was using a small atomic light to show the stark terrain. Suddenly he stopped...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 20, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 16 “Sub-radio, a coded narrow-beam. When your ship landed and I obtained a picture of her, details of the crew and vid image of you and Ta’zara. I sent the details through to my employer, Sedmon of the Six Lives. He...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 18, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 15 “What?” said the Planar-faced man, looking puzzled. “I c’n threaten you!” offered the scarecrow, generously. “And I too,” said Ta’zara. “You are afraid, because I was a...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 16, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 14 Chapter 5 Captain Pausert found himself up before Judge Amorant — very briefly. The judge wasn’t much interested in keeping them in prison. Unfortunately the prosecutor was not of the same mind. “I see no...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 13, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 13 “And do the Empire’s police do have a problem with that?” asked Pausert, reading her tone. “She’s a little girl, Chief-Inspector. Not a drug lord or a pirate captain.” “It does make me...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 11, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 12 “I see. But what has this got to do with me? Or your reaction to the lifecraft?” asked Pausert. “On board that life-craft was another powerful and wealthy man. Also a Counsellor. Counsellor Bormgo,”...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 9, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 11 Chapter 4 The air on the Venture 7333 wasn’t unbreathable. It was just… well, smelly, by the time they were able to send out a call to the port authorities on the sub-radio. “This is Captain Edom of the ship...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 6, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 10 So when a man in a bright orange hat and vest started ringing a bell and shouting “Calpurnia passengers, Calpurnia passengers! Please embark, luncheon is about to be served,” Goth didn’t hesitate, She joined...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 4, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 09 Chapter 3 Goth had left Karres before the captain. Without saying proper goodbyes, which she was still kicking herself about, but… She shook herself vigorously. No use being melancholy and miserable about it, even if she was...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 2, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 08 “We’ll try that, then,” decided Pausert. So they did, with Vezzarn standing by to fire the laterals and muttering about witchy stuff. It worked. They and the wrecked hulk parted company in a last ghostly puff...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 28, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 07 Goth could have teleported the object out of the body, but short of cutting him open and healing him up after, the Leewit could see no way of getting it out. Cutting was indeed an option, she knew. It was one other healers took,...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 26, 2020 | FreerSnippet, Snippets
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 06 Chapter 2 Touching the captain, when he slumped like that, barely able to drink the energy-brew she’d gotten out of the robochef, frightened the Leewit badly. She had allowed herself to do what the Toll pattern in her mind...