Slavers on the loose . . . When Gallian of Orsanyiu baits his friend, Be?be, to accept a wager that he can hunt a baxis by playing a "magical" flute, the two Chaatiu Rangers set out into the verdant grasslands where the lumbering beetle-like beasts graze. Eschewed by hunters, baxi have at least one valuable commodity-chitin, which Gallian extracts from a carcass to sell to Lord Drohemy for making a cuirass for the king's army. On...