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Smut Talk Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 Smut Talk by Larry Niven The Draco Tavern isn't just a pub. It's how and where humanity interacts with at least 28 sapient species throughout the galaxy. Somewhere among these trillions of alien minds are the answers to all of the universal questions. So it's worth the expense, but costs are high. Keeping supplies in hand grows more difficult every time a new species appears. And Siberian weather tears the Draco Tavern down as fast as we can rebuild it. When a year passed without a Chirpsithra ship, we were glad for the respite. The tavern got some repairs. I got several months of vacation in Wyoming and Tahiti. Then that tremendous chirpsithra soap bubble drifted inward from near the Moon, and landers flowed down along the Earths magnetic lines to Mount Forel in Siberia. For four days and nights the Draco Tavern was very busy. On the fifth morning, way too early, 124 individuals of ten species boarded the landers and were gone. The next day both Gail and Herman called in sick. I didn't get in until mid-afternoon, alone on duty and fighting a dull headache. ~~~~ We weren't crowded. The security
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