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Updated: June 11, 2025
You'll be the best-paid officer in the entire fleet; none of the rest of us gets a tenth of what you'll be getting, as far as personal value is concerned. And yet, it costs us practically nothing. You drive an attractive bargain, Sepastian." "Is that the kind of pay you'd like to get, Tallis?" MacMaine asked with a smile. "Why not?
Maybe I should have just shot you while you were unconscious. That would have been kinder to both of us, I think. But ... but, Tallis, I had to tell somebody. Someone else has to know. Someone else has to judge. Or maybe I just want to unload it on someone else, someone who will carry the burden with me for just a little while. I don't know." "Sepastian, what are you talking about?"
Then we'd better " He tried to move and then realized that he was bound hand and foot. The sudden realization of his position seemed to clear his brain completely. "Sepastian, what's going on here? Why am I tied up?" "I had to tie you," MacMaine explained carefully, as though to a child. "There are some things I have to do yet, and I wouldn't want you to stop me.
Oh, some of them have agreed to do almost anything we wanted them to, but these were not the intelligent ones, and even they were only doing it to save their own miserable hides. "Still, you are an exceptional man, Sepastian, unlike any other of your race, as far as we know.
"If it were not for what I, personally, know about you, the Board of Strategy would not even consider your proposition." "I take it, then, that they have considered it?" MacMaine asked with a grin. "As I said, Sepastian," Tallis said, "you have won your case. After almost a year of your time, your decision has been justified." MacMaine lost his grin. "I am grateful, Tallis," he said gravely.
"Is there anything else you want to know?" Tallis frowned a little, as though he were trying to think of something, but then he closed his eyes and relaxed. "No, Sepastian. Nothing. Do whatever it is you have to do." "Tallis," MacMaine said. Tallis didn't open his eyes, and MacMaine was very glad of that. "Tallis, I want you to know that, in all my life, you were the only friend I ever had."
He paused for a moment, but it was merely a conversational hesitation, not a formal hiatus. "It was a hard decision, Sepastian you must realize that. We have been at war with your race for ten years now. We have taken thousands of Earthmen as prisoners, and many of them have agreed to co-operate with us.
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