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Updated: May 12, 2025
He is not like us in many ways he certainly couldn't be, living in this oven but he is still undeniably human. He gave us drinking water when we needed it, then brought help. The magter, the upper-class lords of Dis, are the direct opposite. As cold-blooded and ruthless a bunch of murderers as you can possibly imagine. They tried to kill me when they met me, without reason.
I couldn't ignore his report of radioactive traces. Your girl friend arrived with the hacked-up corpse at the same time I did, and we all took a long look at the green leech in its skull. Her explanation of what it is made significant sense. We were already carrying out landings when we had your call about something having been stored in the magter tower.
What will happen to you at midnight?" "I'll be dead but in spite of that I can't run away. Not now. I must do everything possible right up until the last instant. Ulv and I will go to the magter tower, try to find out if the bombs are there. He will fight on our side now. He may even know more about the bombs, things that he didn't want to tell me before. We can get help from his people.
Therefore the brain-creature is no longer a symbiote but a parasite." "And as a parasite it must be destroyed!" Brion broke in. "We're not fighting shadows any more," he exulted. "We've found the enemy and it's not the magter at all. Just a sort of glorified tapeworm that is too stupid to know when it is killing itself off. Does it have a brain can it think?" "I doubt it very much," Lea said.
Carefully and delicately she removed the cap of bone from the magter's head, exposing his brain to the shaft of light from the window. "You were right all the time, Brion," she said. "There is your alien." Ulv joined them as they looked down at the exposed brain of the magter. The thing was so clearly evident that even Ulv noticed it.
"I don't know for sure, but there is a very good chance it is so," Brion said, trying to repair his defenses. "Telt made readings, he had other records of radioactivity in this same magter keep proof that something is there. But Telt is dead now, the records destroyed. Don't you see " He broke off, realizing how vague and unprovable his case was. This was defeat.
Ulv was still angry, but he lowered the blowgun a little. "I wish there were no offworlders," he said. "I wish that none of you had ever come. Nothing was wrong until you started coming. The magter were the strongest, and they killed; but they also helped. Now they want to fight a war with your weapons, and for this you are going to kill my world. And you want me to help you!" "Not me yourself!"
The motion brought his fingertips just a few inches from his gun. "The magter have bombs that will destroy Nyjord this is the next planet, a star in your sky. If I can find where the bombs are, I will have them taken away and there will be no war." "You want to aid the devils in the sky against our own people!" Gebk shouted, half rising.
"It looks bigger than it was," Brion said, "as if the magter had enlarged it." He looked through and saw the tracks on the sand outside. "As if they had enlarged it to bring something bulky up from below and carried it away in whatever made those tracks!" Using the opening themselves, they ran back to the sand car. Brion ground it fiercely around and turned the headlights on the tracks.
"It wasn't very nice," he said. "You were shaken up by it, I imagine that's why you feel the way you do now. But Lea, you'll have to take my word for this. Don't ask any more questions. There's nothing we can do now about it. But we can still find out about the magter. Will you examine the corpse?" She started to ask something, then changed her mind.
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