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We have to get close to this thing to see what it is." "Parachutes?" said Eyer. Jeter nodded. "It would simplify matters if the thing happened to tilt over and spill us off, I think," said Jeter, matching Eyer's grin with one of his own. "I can't think with any degree of equanimity of plunging ninety thousand feet without a parachute." "I'm not sure I'd care for it with one," said Eyer.
Queer noises at night, mysterious cordons of Eurasians to keep all investigators back, strange losses of livestock, foodstuffs...." Jeter severed connection. There was little need to listen further to something which he couldn't explain yet, in any case. Eyer, at the controls, banked the plane at right angles and flew on. In shortly less than a minute he banked again.
They ate in silence, their thoughts busy. When they had made an end, Jeter squared his shoulders. Eyer grinned. "Well, Lucian," he said, "are we in enemy territory by your calculations? And if so how do you arrive at your conclusions?"
They didn't wish to take a chance on stepping off into the stratosphere and eternity. "It's like an iceberg of space," said the fingers of Jeter. "But let's go back and look it over to the other side of the plane. We have to keep the plane in sight and work from it as a base. And say, what sort of sensations have you had about this surface we're standing on?"
Picard had reported the world to look flat from a little over fifty thousand-feet. "No news, Hadley," said Jeter. "Except, that our plane behaves perfectly and we are at sixty-one thousand feet.
"But to move will interfere with their plans," said Eyer. "Lucian, look at the expressions on their faces! Something tells me they are vulnerable in ways we haven't guessed at. If we knew the secret maybe we could destroy them. We've got to discover their weak spot." There was a long pause while Jeter and Eyer watched the rescue ships come climbing up the endless stairways of the sky.
In five minutes he turned to Jeter with a queer expression on his face. "Well," he said, "what's to do about it? What is it? It seems to be some solid substance approximately a quarter mile square. But it can't be true! A solid substance just hanging in the air at ninety thousand feet! It's beyond all imagining!" "What man can imagine, man can do," replied Jeter.
Tout au milieu de ce bel exercise, je m'avisai de faire une espece de pronostic pour calmer mon inquietude. Je me dis je m'en vais jeter cette pierre contre l'arbre qui est vis-a-vis de moi: si je le touche, signe de salut: si je le manque, signe de damnation.
Jeter and Eyer were bidden to take chairs side by side. The guards drew back a little but never took their eyes off the two. Sitsumi ranged himself beside his colleagues at the table. "I'll answer your questions now, gentlemen, in the presence of my colleagues so that you shall know that we are together in what we propose. We wish you to join us.
Even as Jeter spoke every last light in the building across the way went out. Jeter knew then that it was the other building that was moving and that electrical connection with the earth had been severed. Hadley led the way to the roof, four stories above. Fortunately this was an old building and they didn't have to wait to travel a hundred floors or so.
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