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Updated: June 11, 2025
Just what are you using, in the way of equipment?" Lillian was still talking about that when the two landing craft from the ship were sighted, coming down. Charley Loughran and Willi Schallenmacher, who were returning to the Hubert Penrose to join the other landing party, began assembling their luggage. The others went outside, Howell among them.
"When they make the second landing in the mountains, I'm going to do a lot of hunting," Loughran added. "I'll get wild animals for you." "Well, I'm going to assume that the vocal noises they make are meaningful speech," Lillian Ransby said. "So far, I've just been trying to analyze them for phonetic values. Now I'm going to analyze them for sound-wave patterns.
They have quite a diversity of crops, and I suspect that they have some idea of crop-rotation. I'm amazed at their musical instruments; they seem to have put more skill into making them than anything else. I'm going to take a jeep, while they're all in the village, and have a look around the fields, now." Charley Loughran went along for specimens, and, for the ride, Lillian Ransby.
Everybody would have a spoken language of his own; it would be sort of the instrumental accompaniment to the song." "Some of them don't bother speaking," Karl nodded. "They just toot." "I'll buy that, right away," Loughran agreed. "In mating, or in group-danger situations, telepathy would be a race-survival characteristic.
The snooper over the village reported excitement in the plaza. Bennet Fayon had taken an airjeep to the other camp immediately after lunch. He was back by 1500, accompanied by Loughran. They carried a cloth-wrapped package into Fayon's dissecting-room. At cocktail time, Paul Meillard had to go and get them. "Sorry," Fayon said, joining the group. "Didn't notice how late it was getting.
"It's not right to keep the rest aboard two hundred miles off planet, and you won't be wanting liberty parties coming down where you are." "The country over there looks uninhabited," Meillard said. "No villages, anyhow. That wouldn't hurt, at all." "Well, it'll suit me," Charley Loughran, the xeno-naturalist, said. "I want a chance to study the life-forms in a state of nature." Vindinho nodded.
"It looked to me like actual physical disgust," Anna interpolated. "When I tried it, they acted like a lot of puppies being petted, and when Mark tried it, they were simply baffled. I watched Mark explaining that steel knives were dangerously sharp; they got the demonstration, but when he tried to tie words onto it, it threw them completely." "ALL RIGHT. Pass that," Loughran conceded.
I want you to do an autopsy, and find out how I can kill things by missing them." "How far away was it?" "Call it forty feet; no more." "What were you using, Charley?" Ayesha Keithley called from the table. "Eight-point-five Mars-Consolidated pistol," Loughran said. "I'd laid my shotgun down and walked away from it " "Twelve hundred foot-seconds," Ayesha said. "Bow-wave as well as muzzle-blast."
Charley Loughran and Willi Schallenmacher had gone up to the ship on one of the landing craft; they accompanied the landing party that went down into the mountains. Ayesha Keithley arrived late in the afternoon on another landing craft, with five or six tons of instruments and parts and equipment, and a male Navy warrant-officer helper.
And then the knives come out, and the shooting starts." Luis Gofredo was also a specialist, speaking on his subject. While they were at lunch, Charley Loughran screened in from the other camp and wanted to talk to Bennet Fayon. "A funny thing, Bennet. I took a shot at a bird ... no, a flying mammal ... and dropped it. It was dead when it hit the ground, but there isn't a mark on it.
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