of red cloth. Kneeling, he picked it up and sniffed at the stain.
The smell was of hrinnti blood mixed with human.
Eldrich studied the traffic monitor, noting the incoming green blip’s perfect arc. The ship seemed to be on course for a change, as well as on time, although the landing would be visible from several males’ houses, blast his luck. Earlier, Allenby had reported to him that both the hrinnti sergeant and his human partner had left the station this evening, although separately, a rather interesting development.
A smile seeped across his face. Those big hrinnti males were sensitive about their territory. If those two overstepped their bounds, the savages would eliminate this problem for him. Lacing fingers across his stomach, he leaned back in his chair and propped his shoes up on the desk.
And no one could say he hadn’t m