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"If you come in here armed," Gefty called, "I'll blow your head off. Want to stop this nonsense now?" There was a moment's silence. Then Maulbow's voice replied shakily from the passage. He seemed to be standing about twenty feet back from the room. "If you'll end your thoughtless attempts at interference, Rammer," he said, "there will be no trouble."
How did Maulbow's creature move through the airseal locks? The operating mechanisms were simple a dog might have been taught to use them. But a dog had paws.... There came the soft hiss of the opening lock, the faintest shimmer of light to the right of the passage mouth he was watching through the door.
It isn't, and I don't know what powers it. But we do know now that the control unit is holding us in the time current, and it will go on holding us there as long as it's in operation. "If we could shut it off, the Queen would be 'rejected' by the current, like Maulbow's sailer was. In other words, we'd get knocked back into normspace which is what we want.
It should throw us back into normspace." Kerim nodded again. "What about Mr. Maulbow's janandra animal?" Gefty shrugged. "Depends on the mood I find it in. He said it wasn't usually aggressive. Maybe it isn't. I'll get into a spacesuit for protection and break out some of the mining equipment to move it along with. If I can maneuver it into an empty compartment where it will be out of the ..."
Then we could arrange for a Com-Web link-up there, and in another ten minutes or so ... but I don't think we'd better." "Why not?" Kerim demanded. "Because we got through it all safely, so we're going to get through it safely. But if we receive that message now and never go on to Maulbow's moon ... you see? There's no way of knowing just what would happen." Kerim looked hesitant, frowned.
A few seconds later, he pulled open a small door, bundled the girl through, came in himself, and shut the door to a narrow slit behind them. Kerim whispered shakily, "What will we do now, Gefty?" "Stay here for the moment. It'll look for us in the vault first." And it should go to the storage vault first where it had been guarding Maulbow's machine, to hunt for them there. But it might not.
Apparently, Maulbow's control of them had ended as he lost consciousness. It seemed fortunate that the sick bay cabin's emergency treatment accessories, gentle as their action was, might have been designed for the specific purpose of keeping the most violent of prisoners immobilized let alone one with a terrible knife wound in him.
Both Maulbow's weapons the white rod lying innocently on the wall table and the round, golden device which had dropped from his hand spitting darts of smoking blackness had blasted unnervingly away into that area for almost thirty seconds after Maulbow was down and twisting about on the floor. Then he went limp and the firing instantly stopped.
There was, of course, some supporting evidence ... primarily the improbable appearance of their surroundings. The pencil-thin fire-spouter and the sleazy-looking "restrainer" had a sufficiently unfamiliar air to go with Maulbow's story; but as far as Gefty knew, either of them could have been manufactured in the Hub.
"I let your boss keep both sets of keys to the storage vault because he insisted on it when he signed the charter. What I didn't tell him was that I could make up a duplicate set any time in around half an hour." "Oh! Have you ?" "Not yet. But I intend to take a look at what Mr. Maulbow's got in that vault now, with or without his consent.
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