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Updated: June 4, 2025
Wearily Ross sat back on his heels. Then he glanced at Karara with a twinge of concern. If he was tired by their roundabout communication, she must be doubly so. There was a droop to her shoulders, and her last reply had come in a voice hoarse with fatigue. Abruptly he started up. "That's enough for now." Which was true.
And Afrukta sailed on the same errand south. While some of the Wreckers were released to carry the warning to their lords. Just how great a force could be gathered through such means and how effective it would be, was a question to make the Terrans uneasy. Karara disappeared with the Foanna into the surviving inner cliff-burrows below the citadel.
But the answer had come that the Foanna were older than recorded time, that they had lived in the great citadel before the race of the Terrans' prisoner had risen from very primitive savagery. "What do we do now?" Karara broke in upon Ross's thoughts as she refastened the containers.
"Maybe very soon now. We must see the sea gate before we are sure." "And if we aren't able to see that?" challenged Ross. "The sea gate is above and below the water. Those who obey the Sea Maid, who are able to speak thought to thought, will find it if we can not." But they were never to reach that goal. Karara gave warning: "There are ships about." Ross knew that the dolphins had told her.
Ross waved vigorously, but no hand replied from the skiff. Though it came steadily onward, the three cruisers its apparent goal. "Karara!" Ross called. Then side by side with Tino-rau were two wet heads, two masked faces showing as the swimmers trod water Karara and Loketh. "Drop ropes!" Ross gave that order as if he rather than Torgul commanded.
"No luck, as usual?" "As usual," Karara conceded. "If there ever was a civilization here, it's been gone so long we'll probably never find any traces. Why don't you just pick out a good place to set up that time-probe and try it blind?" Ross scowled. "Because" his patience was exaggerated to the point of insult "we have only one peep-probe.
Ross deduced that the captives had been transferred from the lord of the castle to the Foanna. Which meant Ashe was on his way to another destination. The Terran was on his feet and headed back, intent on returning to the sea cave and starting out after Ashe as soon as he could. "You have found Gordon!" Karara read his news from his face. "The Wreckers had him prisoner.
Ross could not tell why he clung to the idea that they could do anything to strike back at the superior alien force. He only knew that he was not yet willing to relinquish the thought that in some way they could. "And Ashe?" Yes, Ashe.... "I don't know." It hurt Ross to admit that. "Back there, what really happened at the gate?" he asked Karara. "All at once the dolphins seemed to go crazy."
The containers must be all gathered and taken into their hiding place, because upon their contents three human lives could depend. He paused just at the entrance to adjust the net of containers he transported. And it was that slight chance which brought him knowledge of the intruder. On the ledge Karara was heaping up the kelp of the nest. But to one side and on a level with the girl's head....
"You learned the language, the customs, everything you could about your time and your cover. You were letter perfect before you took even a trial run!" "And here you would have no guides," Karara said, nodding. "Yes, I can see the difficulty. Then you will just use the peep-probe?" "Probably. Oh, maybe later on we can scout through a gate. We have the material to set one up.
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