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Four now, not five. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2010. The traveler pays in advance and his ship is awarded a berth from which it can take off into space at any desired moment. We'd make a better deal with the Empire.

I was in me RuddyHall, with only a cask o' mead to keep me company and nothing to do but drinkit. We wed without his consent, I fear, and this marriage puts him indire peril. Icould have walked the rest of the way. Some of the cakes had pinenuts baked in them andsome had blackberries.