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Updated: May 12, 2025
What good can your bunch do when the shooting starts?" "None. But maybe we can put off the shooting. If you are trying to insult me don't bother. My irritation quotient is very high." The driver merely grunted at this, slowing down as they ran through a field of broken rock. "What is it you want?" he asked. "We want to make a detailed examination of one of the magter.
Lea made no protest when he broke the seal and pressed the needle against her arm. She sighed and her eyes closed again. When he saw she was resting easily, he dragged in the tarpaulin-wrapped body of the magter. A work-bench ran along one wall and he struggled the corpse up onto it. He unwrapped the tarpaulin and the sightless eyes stared accusingly up into his.
He turns the pages of one, of the others, flipping the pages, searching for meaning. There is no meaning. All of the pages are blank. This was the way in which the magter were blank, without emotions. There was a barely sensed surge and return that must have been neural impulses on a basic level the automatic adjustments of nerve and muscle that keep an organism alive. Nothing more.
He was halfway there when the spell broke and the rush began. One of the magter knelt and touched the body, and shouted a single word: "Dead!" Brion hadn't waited for the official announcement. At the first movement of feet, he dived headlong for the shelter of the exit.
He was simply killing umedvirk. A believer in life, he destroyed the anti-life. They retreated into the darkness, still firing. The magter had lights and ion rifles, and were right behind them. Knowing the caverns better than the men they chased, the pursuers circled. Brion saw lights ahead and dragged Ulv to a stop. "They know their way through these caves, and we don't," he said.
We will capture a magter, then kill him, so they can all see the umedvirk. Then they will tell us everything they know." "The tower first then, for bombs or a sample magter. What's the fastest way we can get there?" Ulv frowned in thought. "If you can drive one of the cars the offworlders use, I know where there are some locked in buildings in this city.
No emotions to cause complications or desires that might interfere with pure survival. Complete ruthlessness mankind has always been strong on this anyway, so it didn't take much of a push." "The other Disans, like Ulv here, managed to survive without turning into such a creature. So why was it necessary for the magter to go so far?" "Nothing is necessary in evolution, you know that," Lea said.
I killed him myself, because I would rather kill one, or ten, or even a hundred men than have everyone on this planet destroyed. I killed him in a fair fight and now I am going to examine his body. There is something very strange and different about the magter, you know that yourself. If I can find out what it is, perhaps we can make them stop this war, and not bomb Nyjord."
"The magter are the ones who are responsible for causing the trouble, and I had to see them up close before I could make any decisions. It wasn't a very pleasant thing, but I found out what I wanted to know. They are different in every way from the normal Disans. I've compared them. I've talked to Ulv the native who saved us in the desert and I can understand him.
Until he did that, he was the only offworlder on Dis who knew which magter tower might contain the world-destroying bombs. Once out of sight of the sand car he went more slowly, wiping the sweat from his streaming face. He hadn't been seen leaving the car, and he wasn't being followed.
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