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There were shadows under her eyes and her expression was of someone who has lost everything that had meaning in her life. "I'm all right," she insisted, when Calhoun commented. "I've been visiting my family. I've seen Korvan. I'm quite all right." "You haven't eaten any better than I have," Calhoun observed. "I couldn't!" admitted Maril.
There are two questions about it. One is who's to be kept alive, and the other is why." The groundcar aimed now for a cluster of faintly brighter lights on the far side of the great open space. They enlarged as they grew nearer. Maril said hesitantly, "There was someone, Korvan " Calhoun didn't catch the rest of the name. Maril said hesitantly, "He was working on food plants.
"My sisters my little sisters so thin.... There's rationing for everybody and it's all efficiently arranged. They even had rations for me. But I couldn't eat! I gave most of my food to my sisters and they squabbled over it!" Calhoun said nothing. There was nothing to say. Then she said in a no less desolate tone; "Korvan said I was foolish to come back." "He could be right," said Calhoun.
When people find they're not blueskins any longer when there's no such thing as a blueskin any longer will you tell them why?" "Naturally not," said Calhoun. "Why?" Then he guessed. "Has Korvan ." "He thinks," said Maril, "that he thought it up all by himself. He's found the proof. He's very proud. I'd have to tell him the truth if you were going to tell. And he'd be ashamed and angry."
Even then there were matters to be attended to. All the food-supplies that had been removed could not be replaced. There were biological samples to be replaced and some to be destroyed.... The air-tanks.... Maril came to the Med Ship again when he was almost ready to leave. She did not seem comfortable. "I wish you could like Korvan," she said regretfully. "I don't dislike him," said Calhoun.
And Korvan has found out that it always seems to happen after a day when they felt feverish and very thirsty, and then felt all right again. You tried out something that made you feverish and thirsty. I had it too, in the ship. Korvan thinks there's been an epidemic of something that is obliterating the blue spots on everybody that catches it.
There were shadows under her eyes and her expression was of someone who has lost everything that had meaning in her life. "I'm all right," she insisted, when Calhoun commented. "I've been visiting my family. I've seen Korvan. I'm quite all right." "You haven't eaten any better than I have," Calhoun observed. "I couldn't!" admitted Maril.
And there's Korvan, who arranged for me to be sent away as a spy and advised me to do just what you said: abandon my home world and everybody I care about! Including him! It's personal to me!" Calhoun wrinkled his forehead helplessly. "I'm sorry," he repeated. "Drink your coffee!" "I don't want it," she said bitterly. "I'd like to die!"
I'll tell him how you've acted up to now, and your attitude, and of course that you're Med Service. He'll be glad to help you, I'm sure." "Splendid!" said Calhoun, nodding. "That will be Korvan." She started. "How did you know?" "Intuition," said Calhoun dryly. "All right. I'll count on him." But he did not. He worked in the tiny biological lab all that ship-day and all the next.
"What are you driving at?" Maril continued slowly. "Th thousands of people are having their pigment-spots fade away. Not only children but grownups. And Korvan has found out that it always seems to happen after a day when they felt feverish and very thirsty and then felt all right again. You tried out something that made you feverish and thirsty. I had it too, in the ship.
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