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She had all of Gaya's good looks. "The name is Pilch," she said. She looked at Trigger and smiled. It was a good smile, Trigger thought; not the professional job she'd expected. "And everyone who knows Gaya," she went on, "thinks we must be twins." Trigger laughed. "Aren't you?" "Just first cousins." The voice was all right too clear and easy. Trigger felt herself relax somewhat.
A soft, amber-glowing plane of blankness, with a suggestion of receding depths within it. "Last night, shortly before you woke up," Pilch said, "you had a dream. Actually you had a series of eight dreams during the night which seem pertinent here. But the earlier ones were rather vague preliminary structures. In one way and another, their content is included in this final symbol grouping.
The thing that had caught their attention was a quite simple process. It just happened to be a process the Psychology Service hadn't observed under those particular circumstances before. "Here's what our investigators had the last time," Pilch said. "Lines and lines of stuff, of course. But here's a simple continuity which makes it clear. Your mother dies when you're six months old.
I'd go for him myself till I got him on that couch, that is. But that was the first time you hadn't been able to stand a couple of months away from him. It was also the first time you'd started worrying about competition. You now had your justification. And we," Pilch said darkly, "had a fine, solid compulsion with no doubt very revealing ramifications to it to work on.
"I see. When is Major Quillan returning?" "In about a month. It's Captain Quillan at present, by the way." "Oh?" said Pilch. "What happened?" "That unwarranted interference with a political situation business. They'd broadcast a warning against taking individual action of any kind against the plasmoid station.
In my opinion, therefore, the bowler's lot, in spite of billiard table wickets, red marl, and such like inventions of a degenerate age, is the happier one. And here, glowing with pride of originality at the thought that I have written of cricket without mentioning Alfred Mynn or Fuller Pilch, I heave a reminiscent sigh, blot my MS., and thrust my pen back into its sheath.
"I'd heard that." "It was Mantelish's idea," said Trigger. "Now Mantelish is very fond of that sequoia tree. He's got a big, comfortable bench right among its roots, where he likes to sit down around noon and have a little nap when he's out here." "Oh!" said Pilch. "Repulsive's been up to his old tricks, eh?" "Sure. He's given Mantelish very exact instructions.
He just about knocked himself out on that big plasmoid." "Who else knows about this?" asked Pilch. "Nobody. I would have told Holati, except he's still mad enough about having been put into a coma, he might go out and chop the sequoia down." "Well, it won't go into the report then," Pilch said. "They'd just want to bother Repulsive!" "I knew it would be all right to tell you.
"Old Cranadon?" said Pilch. "You won't mind her a bit, I think. Very motherly old type. Let's get through the preparations first, and then I'll introduce you to her. If you think it would make you more comfortable, I'll just stay around while she's working. I've sat in on her interviews before. How's that?" "Sounds better," Trigger said. She did feel a good deal relieved.
"Yes. Any thoughts about it?" "No-o-o. Well, one. The little farmer was the only one who could handle that horse. It was mutated horse, actually one of the Life Bank deals that didn't work out so well. Enormously strong. It could work forty-eight hours at a stretch without even noticing it. But it was just a plain mean animal." "'Crazy-mean," observed Pilch, "was the dream feeling about it."
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