Flandry crash lands, in the company of a heroine, in both A Circus Of Hells and The Rebel Worlds. On neither occasion does the loss of a ship prevent him from returning home in triumph.
Immediately after crashing on Wayland, he destroys more flying attackers until the survivors retreat, leaving one observer. The ship cannot lift without repairs which might be available at the Wayland centrum. However, Djana, holding her stun pistol on Flandry, insists that he launch a message courier back to Irumclaw even though doing so will land Flandry in no end of trouble with the Navy.
Flandry considers trying to jump her, then:
"And swiftly as a stab, he knew the risk was needless. He gasped.
"'What's the matter?' Djana's question wavered near hysteria.
"He shook himself. 'Nothing,' he said. 'All right, you win, let's slip your dispatch off.'" (p. 230)
Flandry launches a courier and the observing flyer destroys it. Now it remains necessary to trek to the centrum and to risk those objects out of bad dreams which still have not been described for us. CHAPTER SIX begins:
"He had topped the ringwall when the bugs found him." (p. 233)
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And Djana counted on being on very good terms with Admiral Julius to keep her from getting into serious trouble back on Irumclaw.
And I like the ingenious way Anderson thought of how Djana's attempt to send a message back to the Navy base was thwarted.
Ad astra! Sean
Getting into a sneaky contest with Dominic Flandry rarely ended well for the challenger.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Absolutely true! Even Aycharaych did not fare all that well in his contests with Dominic Flandry.
Ad astra! Sean
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