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Updated: June 6, 2025
So shadows would lie to the northeast of the objects casting them. Then He did not remain on any straight roadway for more than seconds. But now when he had a choice of turnings, he had a reason for each choice. He twisted and dodged about once he almost ran into children playing a ritual game but the sum total of his movements was steadily southward. Paras were turned out of the south gate.
There will be places and free supplies for you to enjoy the deep satisfactions known only to you! To nonparas you will be protected from becoming paras except by your own choice. In return, you will obey! The price of protection is obedience. The penalty for disobedience will be loss of protection. But those from whom protection is withdrawn will not be supplied with their necessities!
There were screamings on the air, suddenly, and a man's voice panting: "Send police here fast! The paras have gone wild. They're " Calhoun seated himself at the control desk. He threw switches there. He momentarily touched a button. There was a slight shock and the beginning of a roar outside. It cut off. Calhoun looked at the vision plates showing outside. There was swirling smoke and steam.
It wasn't a great fire, considering everything. Less than ten per cent of the city burned, but ninety-odd per cent of the paras in it ceased to be paras. More, they had suddenly regained an invincible aversion to the smell of butyl mercaptan even a modified butyl mercaptan and it was promptly discovered that no normal who had smelled wood smoke became a para.
In the fractionator slide he could get more information the rate-of-diffusion of a substance in solution ruled out all but a certain number of compounds that it could be. The two items together gave a definite clue. Another voice from the speaker: "Headquarters! Paras are massing by the north gate! They act ugly! They're trying to force their way into Government Center!
It was like an infection, and like possession by devils, too. There would be creatures not much removed from fields involved, anyhow. "I think," he said, "that I need to talk to your counter-para researchers. You have men working on the problem?" "We did," said the police head, grimly. "But most of them turned para. We thought they'd be more dangerous than other paras, so we shot them.
The regulation food of the prisoners being ample, the canteen plays a very minor part in the feeding arrangements. It sells tea, coffee, and light refreshments. A cup of sweetened tea costs 5 paras, or about one-third of a penny. The canteen also deals in letter paper, post-cards, thread, needles, buttons and other small odds and ends. The men receive 2 ounces of tobacco free every week.
"I've been wondering," admitted Calhoun dryly, "if all incoming ships are greeted with rockets." "That's the paras," said the police head, grimly. "They'd rather not have a Med Service man here." A ground car sped across the spaceport. It came at a headlong pace toward the group just outside the Med Ship. There was a sudden howl of a siren by the spaceport gate.
It had been used to spray instead of burning the bodies of the two men who'd tried to murder him, and their wrecked ground car, and everywhere that the car was known to have run. It was a decontaminant spray; credited with the ability to destroy the contagion that made paras out of men. Calhoun saw the grid operator's face. It was resolute beyond expression, but it was very, very bitter.
Memoranda of events taking place were handed to him, and he read them and argued with the paras who had tried to rush the north gate of Government Center, to make its inhabitants paras like themselves. But the Planetary President tried to make oratory a weapon against madness. Calhoun grimaced at the voice. He said fretfully: "There's a molecule which has to exist because it can.
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