"I see the red lever's been removed," Jessica remarked. She hadn't been near the ship since the incident.
Orz avoided her gaze. "Yeah. I took it out . . . can't quite look at it." He changed the subject abruptly. "Well, now that this thing's been cleared up, what'll you be doing with yourself?"
"I've no intention of settling down and becoming a good Neekan citizen, you can be sure of that!" she replied. "I'm putting in for an assignment as soon as possible. There's too much going on out there for me to get tucked away on this rock!"
Orz smiled for the first time in several days. "That's funny. I was thinking of taking on an assistant. This business is getting a little too complicated for me to handle alone."
He paused as Jessica waited eagerly.
"You like rats?" he asked. ■
F. Paul Wilson, Short Stories
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