By Alan Dean Foster
He used to be only a freckle-faced, redheaded child with eco-friendly eyes and a surprisingly campelling stare whilst Mather Mastiff first observed him an the auctioneer's block. 100 credit and he used to be hers.
For years the previous lady was once his merely relations. She enjoyed him, fed him, taught him every little thing she knew -- even allow him preserve the lethal flying snake he known as Pip.
Then mom Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. around the forests and swamps of the winged international known as Moth, their simply guns have been Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's strange skills.
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