Elephant-shaped stagecoaches and wagonettes sufficed as the vehicles for the ten-man trip. Nicodemus and Viola were tagged along in their own wagonette, when Udek explained to Bluvil what was to come.

"The only blood that will shed, will be that of the centauroids. The others will be your liaisons, and the agreement will work against you."

That was sixty days ago, and so far Bluvil proves to be more desperate then democratic. Two others were already abandoned ...