Altair'of'Altair

Come if you dare, come but beware,
Come to the lair of Altair of Altair,
Offer a prayer for the men foul and fair,
Trapped in the snare of Altair of Altair,

They tell a lot of stories about Altair of Altair out on the Frontier.

Some say that, like the Jolly Swagman, she was raised by aliens and grew up with a bitter hatred of her own race that the Swagman somehow avoided.

Others say she wasn't human at all, but that she could change her shape at will and enticed her victims to their deaths with an irresistable siren song.

As for Black Orpheus himself, he went directly to the source, as always. It took him almost a month to track her down after he'd reached the Altair system, and then he had to wait another week before she would agree to see him. When they finally met face to face, he took one look at her and decided that she was the most beautiful woman he had seen since the death of his beloved Eurydice.

By the time he left twenty minutes later, he wasn't even sure that she was a woman - but he knew that she was the most formidable killer he had ever encountered.