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to get another graduate assistant's job if I don't give you a good recommendation."
"Testy, aren't we? I hear that comes from not getting enough sleep."
"Damn it, Lucy, what about Sate?"
"I went right to the top. I went over to see your friend, Doctor Freeze at the Culture Center."
"Good man," I confirmed, "piss poor poker player, but other than that, a good man."
"He couldn't keep his hands off me," Lucy bragged. To hear Lucy tell it, every man who ever laid eyes on her wanted to take her to bed. "But I finally convinced him that I was there on business, and he settled down."
While Lucy was meandering through the fantasy world of her preamble, I fished the voice recorder out of the survival kit and attached the input cord to the telephone with a simple clamp. If it was a typical Lucy fact-finding mission, the data would start pouring in and there would be no way I could keep up with her.
"Ready?"
I grunted.
"According to your friend, Doctor Freeze, there was a Tarpann warlord by the name of Korbac, circa year one thousand. It seems our boy Korbac started eating his Wheaties at a very early age and decided to build himself an empire. The only problem was that he had some neighbors called Tobors,

 
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