Death Between the Stars

They asked me about it of course before I boarded the starship. All through the Western sector of the Galaxy few rules are stricter than the one dividing human from nonhuman and the little Captain of the Vesta-he was Terran too and proud in the black leather of the Empire's merchant-man forces-hemmed and hawed about it as much as was consistent with a spaceman's dignity."You see Miss Vargas " he explained not once but as often as I would listen to him "this is not strictly speaking a passen...