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Updated: May 15, 2025
His smile was wistful. "We must choose the lesser evil." Still gently, almost sorrowfully, but with a directness and clarity of thought which amazed me, he plunged into a detailed account of what Georg was to do in command of our forces. My own part in it, already planned by him in detail. Maida's part. Elza's. The division of Rhaal maidens. Girlhood in war! It seemed very strange.
All darkness and silence the brooding silence of death. I was still dazed. Maida Georg; they seemed like people in a dream long faded. Industriana! They were going to the Rhaal City of Industriana. I had been trying to get there. I must get there now join them. I climbed to my feet; the edge of a forest was nearby and with wavering steps I started toward it.
For the first time in generations the Rhaals the men of science from whom all the progress of civilization on Venus came departed from their attitude of aloofness. Their work always before industrial now turned to the sterner demands of war. The Rhaal City lay a brief flight from us. A grave sort of people, these Rhaals.
Yet the Rhaal maidens were going as a matter of course, since there were some activities for which they were more fitted than the men. With all the Rhaal maidens going, Elza and Maida would not stay behind. And though Maida a wife was objected to by Rhaalton, he had yielded finally to her pleading. I will not now detail our plans or our armament.
How foolish my fears, my jealousy! That man of genius ... conqueror of worlds ... But my Elza loved me!... Industriana It must have been two days later when at last we were rescued by the Rhaal patrol and taken to Industriana. Back there in the forest I had suddenly remembered that the mate to the thing I had killed would doubtless be lurking in the vicinity. We fled.
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