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"Against a mixed-up Redax broadcast, you mean!" Jil-Lee exclaimed. "Yes, but you stay here, younger brother. This is a risky climb, and you are not yet strong." Travis was forced to accede to that, waiting as Manulito and Lupe climbed up to the tear and entered. At least Buck and Deklay's experience had forewarned them and they would be prepared for the weird ghosts haunting the interior.
Yet Kaydessa had had wit enough to take his knife! Could this be another case where one race was less affected by a mind machine than the other? Just as the Apaches had not been governed by the Red caller, so the Tatars might not be as sensitive to the Redax. "She is a strong one, that woman one worth many ponies." Eskelta reverted to the old measure of a wife's value. "That is true!"
For all her dark-red hair and gray eyes, this girl who had been arbitrarily returned to a past just as they had been by Redax, could well be a distant clan-cousin. "You " Kaydessa's fingers rested for a moment on his wrist "you, too, were sent here from across the stars. Is this not so?" "It is so." "And there are those here who govern you now?" "No. We are free."
"Do you think we are just the savages those big brains back at the project wished us to be? They have played a trick on us with their Redax. So, we can play a few tricks, too. Me ? I went to M.I.T., or is that one of the things you no longer remember, Fox?" Travis swallowed hastily. He really had forgotten that fact until this very minute.
"We are in two minds because of this Redax, so let us not do anything in haste. Back in the desert world of the People I have seen the mba'a, and he was very clever. With the badger he went hunting, and when the badger had dug up the rat's nest, so did the mba'a wait on the other side of the thorny bush and catch those who would escape that way. Between him and the badger there was no war.
If they've had eighteen months, or even twelve...!" The colonel's fingers balled into a fist. "And they won't be delayed by any humanitarian reasoning " "Then you believe Ruthven will win the council's approval?" "When you are dealing with frightened men, you're talking to ears closed to anything but what they want to hear. After all, we can't prove that the Redax will be harmful."
"There is no return to home for us," Buck stated flatly. "Why do you say that? There could be a rescue ship later " The other raised his eyes again to Travis. "When you slept under the Redax how did you ride?" "As a warrior raiding ... living...." "And I I was one with go'ndi," Buck returned simply. "But " "But the white man has assured us that such power the power of a chief does not exist?
Had they by the wreck of their own ship and the death of Ruthven, escaped just such an existence as these Tatars now endured? If so, why? He and all the Apaches were volunteers, eager and willing to form new world colonies. What had happened back on Terra that they had been so ruthlessly sent out without warning and under Redax?
"There's no use fighting our hands are tied." His words were slurred, almost as if he wanted to disown them. "Then you'll agree to use the Redax?" For the second time within the hour Ashe felt as if he had taken a step only to have firm earth turn into slippery, shifting sand underfoot. "It isn't a matter of my agreeing. It may be a matter of getting through or not getting through now.
Tell me, Dr. Ashe, were you always so thoughtful of your men when you sent agents back into time? And certainly a voyage into space is less a risk than time travel. These volunteers know what they have signed for. They will be ready " "Then you propose telling them about the use of Redax what it does to a man's mind?" countered Ashe. "Certainly. They will receive all necessary instructions."
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