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"After all, I'm living on velvet, I might as well see the whole show. I'm sure that Sako, wherever it is, will be just as full of human folly as Earth was." "He's euphoric," Paula said again, but her face was stricken. "Of all the people in that space-cemetery, we had to pick one who thinks like that," said Vaillant, with a sort of restrained fury.
They'll be splendid company." "God bless my soul!" murmured Mr. Wells helplessly, when he could find breath to murmur anything. He stared at her as if he really had never seen her before. An exclamation, like the pop of a gun, made them look at the doorway where Sako was staring at them as if he could not believe his eyes. "Sako!" shouted Mr. Wells, angrily.
On a certain day in the year of the floods and when Bosambo was gone a month from his land, there came messengers chance-found and walking in terror to all the principal cities and villages of the Akasava, of the Isisi, and of the N'gombi-Isisi carrying this message: "Mimbimi, son of Simbo Sako, son of Ogi, has opened his house to his friends on the night when Bim-bi has swallowed the moon."
He looked at Kieran and then at the woman. "We have to settle this right now," he said. "We're getting near enough to Sako to go out of drive. Are we going to land or aren't we?" "Yes," said Paula steadily. "We're landing." Webber glanced again at Kieran's face. "But if that's the way he feels " "Go ahead and land," she said. It was nothing like landing in a rocket.
It was a dead voice, toneless, emotionless, mechanical. "Are you there, Judd?" it went on, over and over. "The mike switch, Friday," the Hawk said, and then was at Sako's side, his ray-gun transfixing the man with its threatening angle. "Play your part well," was the whisper from his lips. The switch went over with a click. Trembling, Sako faced the microphone. "This is Sako," he said.
The whole community of starworlds is already aware of the illegal resuscitation of one of the pioneer spacemen, and of course there is great interest." He paused. "You, yourself, have done nothing unlawful. You cannot very well be sent back to sleep, and undoubtedly the council will want to hear you. I am curious as to what you will say." "About Sako?" said Kieran. "About them?"
It had people human people on it, very low in the scale of civilization." "Well, what was the problem? Couldn't you start teaching them as you had others?" She shook her head. "It would take a long while. But that wasn't the real problem. It was You see, there's another race on Sako beside the human ones, and it's a fairly civilized race. The Sakae. The trouble is the Sakae aren't human."
But the flitter can, with luck." They both looked at Kieran. "He's the important one," Webber said. "If a couple of us could get him through " "No," said Paula. "We couldn't. As soon as they caught the ship and found the flitter gone, they'd be after him." "Not to Sako," said Webber. "They'd never figure that we'd take him to Sako." "Do I have a word in this?" asked Kieran, between his teeth.
Vaillant turned on him and said fiercely, "If that's what you think " Then he controlled himself and said tightly, "Quarrelling's no good. We're in a box but we can maybe still put it over if we get this man to Sako. Webber, you and Paula take him in the flitter." Kieran rose to his feet. "Fine," he said gaily. "Let us go in the flitter, whatever that is. I am already bored with starships."
"Give the recognition." "The insignia of Dr. Ku Sui?" "Yes. It is " Carse's ray-gun prodded the stomach of the sweating Sako. "An asteroid," he said hastily, "in the center of a circle of the ten planets." The unseen speaker was quiet. Evidently he was conferring with someone else, probably Ku Sui. "All right," his toneless voice came back at last.
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