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He had to sit by while an extremely self-confident young Darian doctor named Korvan rather condescendingly demonstrated that the former blue pigmentation was a viral product quite unconnected with the plague, and that it had been wiped out by a very trivial epidemic of such and such. Calhoun regarded that young man with a detached interest.
Or they might simply land the rest of these ships." "If I'd realized what you were about," said Maril, "I'd have joined in the lessons. I could have piloted a ship." "You wouldn't have wanted to," said Calhoun. He yawned. "You wouldn't want to be a heroine." "Why?" "Korvan," said Calhoun. He yawned again. "I've asked about him.
I dropped hints about the way the blueskin markings went away, yes. You've got books for me?" Calhoun nodded. He found them. "If we had only fallen in love with each other, Maril, we'd be a team! Too bad! These are a wedding present you'll do well to hide." She put her hands in his. "I like you almost as much as I like Murgatroyd! Yes! Korvan will never know, and he'll be a great man."
"When you left Dara," he said, "you were carried a long, long way, to some planet where they'd practically never heard of Dara, and where the name meant nothing. You could have settled there, or anywhere else and forgotten about Dara. But you didn't. Why not, since you're not a blueskin?" "But I am!" she said fiercely. "My parents, my brothers and sisters, and Korvan " Then she bit her lip.
"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 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.
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