A Junior Junior on the Run!
A young man bursts out from one of the innumerable paths through the woods and bounds across the lawn, not running especially smoothly, due to the fact that he’s chuckling - silently, but he still shakes with it. He looks this way and that, scanning the bushes, the flowerbeds, various trees, the porch…
The porch he appears to decide has potential, and he hops hastily up its steps, running along it for a moment before vaulting over the rail into the mostly hollow heart of a lilac bush.
There he sits, grinning triumphantly to himself and peering out through the leaves back the way he came.
Fletcher is from C.J. Cherryh's novel Finity's End - which takes place in the Merchanter Universe, home to such other novels as Voyage In Night, Downbelow Station, and Cyteen.
The porch he appears to decide has potential, and he hops hastily up its steps, running along it for a moment before vaulting over the rail into the mostly hollow heart of a lilac bush.
There he sits, grinning triumphantly to himself and peering out through the leaves back the way he came.
Fletcher is from C.J. Cherryh's novel Finity's End - which takes place in the Merchanter Universe, home to such other novels as Voyage In Night, Downbelow Station, and Cyteen.