A Mutiny of Pirates: Being an account of the Damn Shames and the search for the treasure of Chalcedon
The Damn Shames, a group of bikers-turned-pirates, find themselves at the center of a search for a legendary pirate captain’s treasure–a quest made deadly by politicians, privateers, and the uncaring vacuum of space.
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DragonThis
time, it’s going to be different.Dragon
grits her teeth and flares her nostrils at the pair of oorhunds. Their gold
drool and laser eyes don’t impress her much anymore. After staring at them for
thirty-some minutes, she’s decided Qi and Qat are not so much intimidating as
bizarrely comedic—big, shaggy ursanine babies determined to get off the
Starfarer and back to the soft ground of Lahmu.She
doesn’t blame the oorhunds for their primal desires—but if the crew can’t figure
out how to load four more of these gods-damn creatures on board without any of
them escaping, it’s only a matter of time before Zaalis sends a platoon of
murderers their way. And she’s not going to let that happen.Dragon’s
spent the last half hour manning the door to the Starfarer’s cargo bay as Maude
and Rahab and Dog and Riph try to shoo the stubborn, reluctant oorhunds on
board, one at a time through the door so the others don’t escape. An elegant
plan in theory—a disaster in practice, because oorhunds happen to be bigger and
stronger than any one human. Especially a wounded human like Dragon, who’s only
just quick enough to dodge out of the
way when the oorhunds start barreling towards freedom.
this time the Shames gotta load 6 laser-eyed bear-dogs onto a spaceship. FUN TIMES