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While we were on that ship we must have been under its influence, so we lived as our people lived a hundred years or more ago " "And the purpose of such a thing?" Jil-Lee asked. "To make us more like our ancestors perhaps. It is part of what they told us at the project. To venture into these new worlds requires a different type of man than lives on Terra today.
There was a different kind of adventure here. He reached out and gathered up the bundle of the burners, glancing from Buck to Jil-Lee to Menlik. Then he stood up, the weight of the burden in his arms, the feeling of a greater weight inside him. "Shall we go?" To get the weapons back that was of first importance.
"Reds get to the towers everything finished. Not only here ... maybe back home too...." Did he read comprehension on Buck's face? Would Nolan and Jil-Lee and the rest believe him? Travis could not suppress the cough any longer, and the ripping pain which followed was the worst he had ever experienced. But still he kept his feet, tried to make them understand. "Don't let them get to the towers.
"We do not use it against living things," Travis promised, "but against the ship of the Reds to cut that to pieces. This will open the shell of the turtle and let us at its meat." Jil-Lee nodded. "Those are true words. But now I agree with your fears of this place, Travis. This is a devil thing and must not be allowed to fall into the hands of those who "
"Did any man drive you, Nolan, or you, Tsoay, or you, Jil-Lee, or any of us, to promise to go beyond the stars? You were told what might be done, and you were eager to try it. You were all volunteers!" "Save for this voyage when we were told nothing," Jil-Lee answered, cutting straight to the heart of the matter.
"For rescuers who never came," Jil-Lee said softly. "And there is a chance they could be revived even now?" Travis shivered. "Not one I would want to take." "No," Buck's tone was somber, "that I agree to, younger brother. These are not men as we know them, and I do not think they would be good dalaanbiyat'i allies. They had go'ndi in plenty, these star men, but it is not the power of the People.
He had no idea of their use, but the wholesale destruction of each and every machine was what good sense and logic dictated. There was a sound behind. Travis whirled, saw Jil-Lee and beyond him Buck. "Up?" Jil-Lee asked. "And down," Buck added. "The Tatars say they have hollowed a bunker beneath." "Separate and do as much damage as you can," Travis suggested. "Agreed!" Travis sped on.
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