A young girl came up and shyly presented him with a pair of very good shoes. There was an outcrop of harder rock. “They’re an almost-vanished subspecies—agriculture had dropped the water table and their caves were going dry. So they let Jaeger go, hoping for something to break later.
“Wait till the Eleventh gets here and we can re-establish control of the city, that’s my advice. I can still do useful shit, even now. Obviously, we know what you know. ____, “Zookrollers Winkelden Ook,” Strange Horizons, December.
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