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Updated: June 3, 2025
We feared the bombarding electrons might cross it, penetrate the inner shell and, like a lightning bolt, enter the room. We dropped the curtain corner. The radiance of the bolt was dimly visible. A few seconds, then it vanished again, and behind the shield we had not felt a tingle. "Harmless!" But our power had been drained nearly an aeron, to neutralize the shock to the Erentz current.
"We'll climb the tower to the signal room," I whispered. "Do it boldly." We stepped from the cubby. Potan was not in sight; perhaps he was on the further deck beyond the central cabin structure. On the deck, we were immediately accosted. This was different our appearance in the Erentz suits! "Where are you going?" This fellow spoke in Martian. I answered in English, "Up there."
"Yes yes, I will. You put yours on." We had them adjusted in a moment. Our Erentz motors were pumping. I gripped her. "Put out your helmet light." She extinguished it. I handed her my projector. "Hold it a moment. I'm going to take that belt of bombs." The trap door was all but broken under the ramming blows of the men.
"Oh Gregg, I will!" We deposited our Erentz suits carefully in a corner of the cubby. We might need them so suddenly! Then we swaggered out to join the brigands working on the deck. The deck glowed lurid in the queer blue-greenish glare of Martian electro-fuse lights. It was in a bustle of ordered activity. Some twenty of the crew were scattered about, working in little groups.
"You have on your Erentz suits: are you going to the dome roof? Then go." But that was what we did not want to do. Anita's glance seemed to tell me to let her handle this. I turned toward one of the cubby windows. She said sweetly, "Are you in charge of this room? Show me how the projector is operated. I know it will be invincible against the Grantline camp." I had my back to them for a moment.
The bombarding electrons had passed through the outer shell of the building's double wall, and been absorbed in the rarefied, magnetized aircurrent of the Erentz circulation. Like poison in a man's veins, reaching his heart, the free alien electrons had disturbed the motors. They accelerated, then retarded. Pulsed unevenly, and drew added power from the reserve tanks.
"I don't think so. I haven't seen it." "Then we can get out the way they brought us in. The hull port it's a manual, too." "Yes, I think I can find our way down through the hull corridors." "There are guards outside on the rocks." We had seen them through the dome windows. But there were not many, only two or three. I was armed and a surprise rush would do the trick. We donned our Erentz suits.
I could envisage the triumphant curiosity of Potan and his men up there, gazing along the beam. We had dimmed the lights to conserve our power, and to enable the Erentz motors to run at full capacity. Our buildings would have to withstand the brigands' rays which soon would be upon us. Outside on our dim, Earthlit cliff, the tiny lights showed where our few guards were lurking.
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