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The whole community of starworlds is already aware of the illegal resuscitation of one of the pioneer spacemen, and of course there is great interest." He paused. "You, yourself, have done nothing unlawful. You cannot very well be sent back to sleep, and undoubtedly the council will want to hear you. I am curious as to what you will say." "About Sako?" said Kieran. "About them?"
Webber seemed absolutely appalled. "Where's that gun you had?" Kieran panted. "It's not a gun, only a short-range shocker," he said. "It wouldn't stop these things. Look at them!" They bounded, sporting around them, howling with a sound like laughter. They were as large as leopards and their eyes glowed in the cluster-light.
It was too far from Kieran for him to understand what it was saying but it had a note of excitement, almost of panic, in it. Something changed, hardened, in Vaillant's flat face. He said, "I expected it. I'll be right there. You know what to do." He did something to the disk and spoke into it again. "Paula, take over here." He stood up. Kieran looked up at him, feeling numb and stupid.
"There are some of us who don't believe they should. In the Council, we're known as the Humanity Party, because we believe that humans should not be ruled by non-humans." Again, Kieran was distracted from his immediate question this time by the phrase "Non-human". "These Sakae what are they like?" "They're not monsters, if that's what you're thinking of," Paula said.
She asked candidly, "Were you always so damned hateful or did the revivification process do this to you?" Kieran grinned. "All right. Go ahead." "Things happened pretty much as people foresaw back in 1981," she said. "The drive was perfected. The ships went out to the nearer stars. They found worlds. They established colonies from the overflowing population of Earth.
Vinson, sweating and unhappy now, had visions of a black mark on his record, and determined to make his point. "But about Kieran, sir he was only frozen. Suppose there was a chance to bring him back?" "Bring him back? What the devil are you talking about?" Vinson said, "I read they're trying to find some way of restoring a man that gets space-frozen. Some scientists down at Delhi University.
But it had been found that the alternating fortnights of boiling heat and near-absolute-zero cold on the lunar surface could play havoc with the delicate instruments used in certain researches. Hence Wheel Five had been built and was staffed by research men who were rotated at regular eight-month intervals. Kieran loved it, from the first.
But Kieran had a certain intellectual honesty, and after a while he admitted to himself that neither the beauty nor the romance of it was what made this life so attractive to him. It was the fact that he was far away from Earth. He did not even have to look at Earth, for nearly all geophysical research was taken care of by Wheels Two and Three that circled the mother planet.
The after-rail of the chart-room deck looked almost directly down the hatch whereon the fight was to take place. As Noyes was taking his position by the rail he guessed that the bosun must have just said something which pleased the crew, for most of them were still laughing heartily. Kieran, on a camp-stool, waited for the laughter to simmer down. He fixed a mocking eye on the bosun.
The earliest emigrants to Argyle were Pagans, while the latter were Christians, and were accompanied by priests, and a bishop, Kieran, the son of the carpenter, whom, from his youthful piety and holy life, as well as from the occupation followed by his father, is sometimes fancifully compared to our Lord and Saviour himself.
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