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Updated: May 14, 2025
You Sakae may be intelligent, civilized, reasonable, but you're not human. When I see you ordering them around like beasts, I want to kill you. That's how I feel." Bregg did not change his bearing, but he made a small sound that was almost a sigh. "Yes," he said. "I feared it would be so. A man of your times a man from a world where humans were all-dominant would feel that way."
He thought he might have been mistaken. Just the same, he ran to catch up with the others. The people were moving steadily. Kieran knew that their senses were far keener than his, and they were obviously not aware of any danger other than the basic one of the Sakae. He decided that he must have been seeing things. But an uneasiness persisted.
Even the littlest ones were still. Kieran could not hear anything except the wind in the trees. "What ?" he started to ask. Webber made an imperative gesture for silence. The tableau held for a brief second longer. Then the brown-haired man who seemed to be the leader made a short harsh noise. The people turned and vanished into the trees. "The Sakae," Webber said. "Get out of sight."
The Sakae say it's impossible." "Is it true?" asked Kieran. "No," said Paula fiercely. "It's a matter of pride. They want to keep their dominance, so they simply won't admit that the people are anything more than animals, and they won't give them a chance to be anything more."
Kieran stared at her. "So what? If they're intelligent " "You talk as though it was the simplest thing in the world," she flashed. "Isn't it? If your Sakae are intelligent and the humans of Sako aren't, then the Sakae have the rights on that world, don't they?" She looked at him, not saying anything, and again she had that stricken look of one who has tried and failed.
Not for food, the Sakae are vegetarians, but " "But," said Paula, "they were the dominant race, and the people were simply beasts of the field. When they competed for land and food the people were hunted down or driven out." She swung an expressive hand toward the landscape beyond the trees. "Why do you think they live in this desert, scraping a miserable existence along the watercourses?
"There are some of us who don't believe they should. In the Council, we're known as the Humanity Party, because we believe that humans should not be ruled by non-humans." Again, Kieran was distracted from his immediate question this time by the phrase "Non-human". "These Sakae what are they like?" "They're not monsters, if that's what you're thinking of," Paula said.
Exotic or not, they made perfectly adequate cover. Stones came whistling out of the woods, but Kieran could not see anything where Paula was pointing but an occasional shaking of foliage. "Sakae?" he asked. Webber snorted. "You'll know it when the Sakae find us. They don't throw stones." "These are the humans," Paula said. There was an indulgent softness in her voice that irritated Kieran.
Keep your patient quiet any more of that moaning and flopping and we're sunk." He picked up a large plastic container and moved closer to the door. Paula looked at Kieran's cheek. "Let me fix that." "Don't bother," he said. At this moment he hoped the Sakae, whoever and whatever they were, would come along and clap these two into some suitable place for the rest of their lives.
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