"Okay, no," says Adrian, eyeing the vidwindow that's popped up in front of him. "I been stuck as that thing with the mandibles twice now. No way in hell'm I doin' that again."
The other options don't look all that bad. The
robot looks okay, at least, and the critters look respectable. Nothing wrong with squirrels, and he's pretty sure that if he picked the killer whale the Bar would let him get to the lake out back first. And hey, he actually recognizes the
woman. But not the thing with the mandibles. No.