Keep Your Friends Close… by Richard Helmling (with compliments to Alan Dean Foster) He thought he was starting to get pretty good at reading the alien’s moods by how its feelers twitched. The Methcalt—a loose aural analogue of the name another species used for them—had no spoken language. They were capable of creating some sounds,…
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The cave was the last place Kold expected to see a preacher. There were plenty of preachers protesting at the entrance to the cave. And there were even more lining the roads that brought him and his sister there. More than once they had to ditch the road entirely, just to arrive safely. But they…
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