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Updated: May 25, 2025
I thought swiftly and turned on him with a frown: "Mean ye that I am not handsome enough?" "Nay, Strokor," quoth the star-gazer. "There be none handsomer in this world, no matter what the standard of any other, such as Edam's Jeos. "It is not that. It is, that thou hast no ambition." I considered this deeply. At first thought it was not true; had I not always made it a point to best my opponent?
"But I cannot take the pledge with ye. "I have seen a wondrous thing, and I love it. And, though I know not why I feel that Jon has willed it for Jeos to see a new race of men, a race even better than ours." I leaped to my feet. "Better than ours! Mean ye to say, stripling, that there can be a better man than Strokor?"
"Nay," she answered, with a laugh in her voice. "Rather I would go with Edam here. I would go," she finished, her voice rising in her excitement, "away from this horrible man's world; away from it all, Strokor, and to Jeos! Hear ye? To Jeos! And " But at that instant I burst through the grating. Without a sound I charged straight for the pair of them.
"It would appear, Strokor, that it be not so much of an effort for beings to live, there on Jeos, as here. Perchance 'tis the greater amount of vegetation; at all accounts, the animals need not prey upon one another so generally; and that, then, would explain why some have energy enough to waste in the care of their young." "I can understand," I said, very slowly.
"They must be some trick of the enemy. "Dost recall Edam's vision of the creatures in the air of Jeos?" he went on, knowing that I would not hinder him. "Now, as I remember it, he said they flew with great speed. Were it not possible, Strokor, for suitable engines to propel very light structures at such high speed as to remain suspended in the air, after the manner of leaves in a storm?
And in far less time than it takes to tell it, the little boat was high up among the stars, going higher every instant, and farther away from me. And suddenly the sweat broke cold on my forehead; for dead ahead, directly in line with their travel, lay the bluish white gleam of Jeos. So great was my rage over the escape of the dreamer with my woman, at first I felt no sorrow.
"I can understand why a mother will fight for her babes; 'tis reasonable enough, no doubt. But as for fathers doing the same Edam, dost mean to say that ALL creatures on Jeos do this?" "Nay; only some. It may be that fewer than half of the varieties have the custom. Howbeit, 'tis a beautiful one. When the vision ended I was right loath to go." "Faugh!" I spat upon the ground.
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