His gaze traveled to the empty red desert where, in about four hours, Stardust's sandcar would appear. It shifted to the sacks of priceless Devil's Egg seed, and he began to chuckle.
And last, his gaze turned to the black, pin-point eyes and the moving fore-claws of the two Aabs which squatted some three feet away from him in the jagged, sharp-edged shadow of a Devil's Egg....