文档介绍：Ringo, John & Co. - Legacy of the Aldenata 09 - Yellow
Yellow Eyes
(Ojos Amarillos: La Defensa de Panama)
(This being the tale of the defense of Panama and the Panama Canal by . and Panamanian forces against
landing and migrating Posleen.)
John Ringo and Tom Kratman
YELLOW EYES
You are going to have the fever,
Yellow eyes!
In about ten days from now
Iron bands will clamp your brow;
Your tongue resemble curdled cream,
A rusty streak the centre seam;
Your mouth will taste of untold things
With claws and horns and fins and wings;
Your head will weigh a ton or more,
And forty gales within it roar!
In about ten days from now
You will feebly wonder how
All your bones can break in twain
And so quickly knit again!
You will feel a score of Jaels
In your temples driving nails!
You will wonder if you're shot
Through the liver-case, or what!
You will wonder if such heat
Isn't Hades-and repeat!
Then you'll sweat until, at length,
You-won't-have-a-kitten's-strength!
In about ten days from now
Make to health a parting bow;
For you're going to have the fever,
Yellow eyes!
-James Stanley Gilbert,
"Panama Patchwork," 1909
Prologue
From where he stood in the back of the crowded assembly hall, Guanamarioch saw the gold-strapped
Rememberer ascend the rostrum. The chattering of the massed Kessentai ceased as the cleric-the Rememberers
were as near to a clergy as the Posleen had-rapped his skilled claw, twice, on the stone podium. Except for age
and scarring, the Remember was-like Guanamarioch-an average looking Posleen, a crocodilian centauroid with
yellow skin and eyes, standing about fifteen hands high, with rows of sharp ivory teeth and having a feathered
crest (not dissimilar to a Sioux Indian war ) that it could erect when it wished.
"Let us remember," the cleric called, laying its crest low in respect for the ceremony.
All the hundreds of Kessentai crossed their arms over their massive chests, looked upward,