{"id":11001,"date":"2017-05-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2017-04-26T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:02:33","slug":"gunslinger-to-the-stars-excerpt-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/gunslinger-to-the-stars-excerpt-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunslinger to the Stars \u2014 excerpt 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our little pissing match had attracted some unwelcome attention, in particular three large and rather unfriendly looking aliens. Picture the love child of an armadillo and a rock, beaten half to death with the ugly stick. Their tentacle-like tongues flicked in and out of their narrow mouths as they formed a half-circle around us.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are hoo-man?\u201d the largest one asked in the local trade language. My wrist console translated for me through my ear-jewel, though I understood well enough to get along without it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Jane answered before I could say anything. \u201cThough we are not official emissaries, we express our greetings in a spirit of friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was a lot better at the trade language than I was, but she had still missed a few non-verbal cues. The two grunts stood with their centers of gravity low and their arm-like upper appendages ready for action, like linebackers just before a play. They all carried dagger-like blades on their belts, with a longer one sheathed on the backs of their knotted shells. It was clear that they weren\u2019t here to establish friendly diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

My hand slipped down to Kindness, the .45 ACP 2011 holstered on my hip.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou come with us,\u201d the head rockadillo said, its tongue flitting rapidly. \u201cNo question. No resist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but there must be some mistake,\u201d said Jane, frowning at their odd request.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe no mistake. You hoo-man, you come now. No more talk!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFriends, please,\u201d said Ivosh, stepping between them. \u201cThere is no need to\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

Without any warning, Grunt Number One lunged forward and threw a punch into Ivosh\u2019s body with a sickening snap, and the empath tumbled over the countertop. Jane screamed, and I bolted into action.<\/p>\n

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Our little pissing match had attracted some unwelcome attention, in particular three large and rather unfriendly looking aliens. Picture the love child of an armadillo and a rock, beaten half to death with the ugly stick. Their tentacle-like tongues flicked in and out of their narrow mouths as they formed a half-circle around us. \u201cYou… Continue reading Gunslinger to the Stars \u2014 excerpt 6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1002,1080],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gunslinger-to-the-stars","category-gunslinger-trilogy","tag-excerpts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2Rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11002,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}