![]() ![]() ![]() 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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