"You'd better be joking about that." Tahiri managed to keep her tone light, for the most part. If she'd had her blaster on her, she could have gotten the third gremlin from here, but she'd run out all her power packs yesterday and hadn't had a chance to clean the blaster yet anyway.

"And those didn't ever start off looking cute and fuzzy. Can you believe these are the same things that just wanted hugs a couple of days ago?"