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Then silence too complete a silence. How could they have guessed trouble so quickly. Unless, unless the Baldies' mental communication had been at work ... they might even now know their fellow was dead. But not how he died. Ross was prepared to grant the Baldies super-Terran abilities, but he did not see how they could know what had happened here.
Ross worked his way to a curtain of underbrush from which he had a free view of the beach and the aliens. Three of them he counted, and they were Baldies, all right taller and thinner than his own species, their bald heads gray-white, the upper dome of their skulls overshadowing the features on their pointed chinned faces.
"Yes. Knowing there is something to be learned, they will try for it. They will not dare not to." Ross was very certain on that point. His encounters with the Baldies had not led to any real understanding. But the way they had wiped out the line of Russian time stations made him sure that they dealt thoroughly with any situation they considered a threat.
To go down a very tempting lane would be making himself a clear target for anyone in those buildings ahead. He had seen the flamers of the Baldies fail on the beach, but that did not mean the aliens were now weaponless. His best chance, Ross decided, was to circle north, come back down along the bed of a stream.
Well, I think I could do without answers such as the Baldies would know. But I will admit that I would like to know what did happen here two, five, ten thousand years ago." Ashe stood up and stretched. For the first time he smiled. "Do you know, I rather like the idea of fishing off Karara's beckoning finger. Maybe she's right about that changing our luck."
The Baldies were there; they murdered the kin of these men. The odds are they reached there by some form of sub. Send one of the dolphins to see what is happening and if they are still there...." Karara asked no more questions, but whistled to the dolphin. With a flip of tail Tino-rau took off.
Now he breathed deeply of the wind the smell of the sea, the scents of the land growths, strange but pleasant. So easy to relax, to drop into the soft, lulling swing of this world in which they had found no fault, no danger, no irritant. Yet, once those others had been here the blue-suited, hairless ones he called "Baldies." And what had happened then ... or afterward?
There is a sub in the bay. It emits energy waves on a shoreward beam." "Then they are still there." Ross accepted the dolphin's report without question. Neither of the scouts would make a mistake in those matters. Energy waves beamed shoreward power for some type of unit the Baldies were using? Suppose the Rovers could find a way of cutting off the power.
If the Foanna will lead us in their persons, then we shall follow gladly, knowing that their magic will be with us." "There is also this," Ross broke in. "The Baldies have the gill-packs they took from Baleku and Loketh, and they have Loketh. They will want to learn more about us. We hoped that the citadel would provide bait to draw them and it did.
He was a fool; they were all fools to become embroiled in this. The Baldies and their stellar empire if that ever had existed as the Terrans surmised was long gone before his breed entered space. "If you accomplish this with our aid," said Ashe, "will you be able to defeat the invaders?" Again a lengthening moment of silence before the Foanna replied: "We can not tell.
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