What is "ixil"

Usage examples of "ixil".

For Ixil, a starship-engine mechanic, the ferrets were invaluable in dealing with wiring or tubing or anything else involving tight spaces or narrow conduits.

I asked, giving Pax another scritch and wondering for the millionth time whether Ixil got the same scritch through their neural link.

I said, the image of that massive search Ixil and I had spotted out in the Meima wilderness vivid in my memory.

We needed a replacement mechanic, after all, and Ixil would fit the bill perfectly.

The two ferrets came in twice while I was talking, dumping their scouting information on Ixil and presumably getting new instructions before scampering off again.

I sat down facing Ixil, keeping the door visible at the corner of my eye.

My first reaction was to think that that was possibly the strangest comment Ixil had ever made, certainly in recent memory.

But Ixil was a nonhuman, with access to a pair of even more nonhuman outriders, and all of them had different sensory ranges from mine.

Tera was standing in the doorway, a slight frown on her face as she took in Ixil seated in the restraint chair with me on the swivel stool.

No big surprise, since aside from storage and recycling equipment there were only two sleeping cabins down here, mine and the one Ixil had moved into.

His whole body was trembling now, his fists opening and closing like relays in an unstable feedback loop, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Ixil ease a little closer beside him.

Shawn, taking his other arm from Ixil and half guiding, half carrying the moaning kid down the corridor behind Everett.

They all disappeared inside, the door closed behind them, and Ixil looked back at me.

I turned to see Ixil come into the corridor from the wraparound, a toolbox in his hand.

Pax twitched at that, Ixil no doubt wondering what our medic was doing on bridge watch when Tera was supposed to be holding the fort there.