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Updated: June 4, 2025
He straightened his shoulders, and kept them straight. He paced the floor with a tread that was martial, and once he stopped before the door with his right hand thrust under his breast-pocket, and with wrinkling brow studied the hills. It was a new man with the water in his blood changed to wine who turned suddenly on Flitter Bill Richmond: "I can collect a vehy large force in a vehy few days."
And now the settlements of mankind were on the march, spreading out from the well established sections which had not been blighted by ancient wars. It was mid-afternoon when Dane noted that the green carpet beneath the flitter was displaying holes that small breaks in the vegetation became sizable stretches of rocky waste.
As the outer port of the flitter berth closed Dane reached over and pulled loose the lashing which immobilized his companion. The Medic stood up, a little awkwardly as might any man who wore space armor the first time. The inner hatch now opened and Dane waved his captive into the small section which must serve them as a decontamination space.
"All four of our base camps were set inland, our explorations along the coast were mainly carried out by flitter, except for one party the one which found this. And there may be excellent local reasons why any native never showed himself to us. For that matter, they may not be able to exist on land at all, any more than we could live without artificial aids in the sea." "Now ?"
But who was piloting? "Captain! Soriki!" he appealed for reassurance. And then was aware that there was no familiar motor hum, none of that pressure of rushing air to which he had been so long accustomed that he missed it only now. "You are safe " Again that would-be comfort. But Raf tried to move his arms, twist his body, be sure that he rested in the flitter.
The parson was returning from Cumberland Gap, whither he had gone to take the oath of allegiance. "By the way, I have something here for you which Flitter Bill asked me to give you. He said it was from the commandant at Cumberland Gap." "Fer me?" asked the captain hope springing anew in his heart. The parson handed him a letter. Mayhall looked at it upside down.
No sooner did he begin to wonder about Flitter the Bat than he could think of nothing else. So he watched until the way was clear, and then he started for the Smiling Pool as fast as he could go, lipperty-lipperty-lip. He hoped he would find Grandfather Frog sitting as usual on his big green lily-pad, and that he would be good-natured.
It was only when they were standing by the flitter and he saw the suits that his eyes widened and he said: "The Big Burn!" "Yes, and I'm desperate " "You must be or mad " The Medic stared at Dane for a long moment and then shook his head. "What is it? A plague ship?" Dane bit his lip. The other was too astute. But he did not ask why or how he had been able to guess so shrewdly.
How many of you know Flitter the Bat?" "I've often seen him," declared Jumper the Hare. "So have I," said Chatterer the Red Squirrel. Each of the others said the same thing. There wasn't one who hadn't watched and envied Flitter darting about in the air just at dusk of early evening or as the Black Shadows were stealing away in the early morning. Old Mother Nature smiled.
"It is one of the strange things of life," said she, "that people often know nothing about the neighbors whom they see every day. But in this case it is not to be wondered at. I suspect none of you has seen Flitter, excepting in the air, and then he moves so rapidly that there is no chance to get a good look at him.
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