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But when it swept earthward he saw enough to make him believe that wherever the spacer had set down it was not on the Terra he knew. Subconsciously he had expected the Big Burn to be barren land curdled rock with rivers of frozen quartz, substances boiled up through the crust of the planet by the action of the atomic explosives.
And the Out-Hunter respected him as being man enough to be wary of giving any suspicion of going counter to the agreed plan. Dawn was touching up the main points of the western continent, and he must set this spacer down within a day's journey of the abandoned L-B. Exploration in that direction would be the first logical move for his party.
He may not relay it to the Patrol, but he'll keep the force barrier up and the civs inside anything else would be malicious neglect and a murder charge when the Guild check tape goes in. This call is on the spacer tape now and will be a part of that he can't possibly alter such a report and he knows it. This is the best we can do now " "We're close to the mountains, aren't we?"
His unhelmeted head was grizzled, his coarse, tanned face with heavy jowls bristly enough to suggest he had not bothered to use smooth-cream for some days. An under officer of some spacer, retired to finish out the few years before pension in this nominal duty fast letting down the standards of personal regime he had had to maintain on ship board.
But he had never tried to bring it down on a roof, and he was very sure that now he had no margin for error left him, not with Hobart breathing impatiently beside him, his hands moving as if, as a pilot of a spacer, he could well take over the controls here. Raf circled twice, eyeing the surface of the roof in search of any break which could mean a crack-up at landing.
In the end the natives won and Kosti was summoned to carry on board the chest which the servants had brought. Having seen it carried safely inside the spacer, the aliens departed, but Van Rycke was frowning and Jellico's fingers were beating a tattoo on his belt as they came up the ramp. "I don't like it," Jellico stated as he entered. "It was none of my doing," Van Rycke snapped.
Sparing the feelings of the accompanying storm priests about the offensiveness of the spacer Captain Jellico and Steen Wilcox went out to receive them in the open. Dane watched from the hatch, aware that in his present pariah-hood it would not be wise to venture closer. The Terran Traders were protesting some course of action that the Salariki were firmly insistent upon.
Rip set his course for Terra for that plague spot on their native world where they might hide out the Queen until they could prove their point that the spacer was not a disease ridden ship to be feared. He kept to the control cabin, shifting only between the Astrogator's and the pilot's station.
This was no fur-covered half-animal, nor was it one of the delicate-boned, decadent, painted creatures such as those who now ringed in their captive. Though the man had been roughly handled and now reeled rather than walked, Raf thought for one wild instant that it was one of the crew from the spacer.
"Don't babble like a fool!" Kennon said with disgust. "How could I land a spacer here without being spotted? You sound like a two-credit novel. And even if I did would it be a can like this?" Kennon played the torch over the blue-black durilium protruding from the ashes. Douglas' eyes widened as he took in the details of construction. "What an antique!" he blurted. "Where did you get this can?"
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