Expensive fish in a backyard pond

Usage examples of koi.

They had the same features as Koi, and she retained an image of long toes grasping delicately between the blossoms and leaves.

Not a good survival strategy with Koi running around, but good, very good, for her immediate survival.

Because Koi and his family were a lever to move Dane one day, assuming she left here alive.

Inside, Koi lay on the smart-foam mattress, his eyes glassy, wrists and ankles bound with the wide straps of humane restraints.

As they reached the bright, stunning heart of the orbital, Koi stirred and whimpered.

Dane took Koi to the control center, with its bright visitor access, its gleaming surfaces, its machines, screens, data-storage tanks.

Then we passed over a series of ornamental ponds where plump gold and silver koi were mouthing near the surface.

For the second time since arriving in the city I saw koi gaping up at me.

The paths tangled around each other, meandering past koi ponds and ornamental waterfalls, encircling pagodas and teahouses.

It was just a question of pulling the trigger and putting the giant koi out of whatever extremely simplistic mental state it was currently in, certainly nothing sophisticated enough to be termed misery, I was sure.

There was a small crowd around him, just as before-people who would linger for a few minutes at the marvel of the age before realising that, really, all it was was a large old fish, and that, size apart, there was really nothing about Methuselah which was intrinsically more interesting than the younger, leaner, nimbler koi which thrived in the ponds.

Judging by the looks of shock and bewilderment and revulsion I saw, I might as well have been pissing on the ornamental lawn which fringed the koi pond.

Combat vessels of this sort are usually pretty cramped, but Soseki Koi had had a lot of time to change all that.

For Koi, it was simply the flow of historical forces, no more in question than the laws of gravity or thermodynamics.

Soseki Koi and a small group of survivors had fought their way clear of the Mitzi Harlan debacle.