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Maybe it's because they're alien " He had said the wrong thing and knew it immediately. "That sounds like prejudice, Kurbi!" Hobart's voice carried the snap of a reprimand. "Yes, sir," Raf said woodenly. That had done it as far as the captain was concerned. The fierce racial and economical prejudices which had been the keystones of the structure of Pax had left their shadow on Terra's thinking.
Not a cloud was to be seen in that flaming sky, and through that dustless atmosphere the eye could see the horizon a horizon three times as distant as the one to which we are accustomed with a distinctness and clarity impossible in our Terra's dust-filled air.
It didn't make sense for them to keep their word, release a fully-operational enemy battle cruiser. But he couldn't have passed up even so remote a chance . . . Arjen turned, to face Willis' image directly. "The condition met has been, Ship-Captain. You free to go now are." Willis didn't look as if she believed it, but she gave orders to have Terra's coordinates fed into the helm.
And in the end he did sleep, deeply, dreamlessly, as if the touch of Terra's soil was in itself the sedative his tautly strung nerves needed. It was before sunrise that he awoke, stiff, and chilled. The dryness of pre-dawn gave partial light and somewhere a bird was twittering. There had been birds or things whose far off ancestors had been birds in the "hot" forest.
And their hidden temporary bases were looped about the galaxy, their need for worlds with an atmosphere similar to Terra's as necessary as that of man. For in spite of their grotesque insectile bodies, their wholly alien minds, the Throgs were warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing creatures.
"Kranath's Vision was . . . well, as thoroughly as Terra's been explored, I'd have said it was impossible. It's hard to believe archaeologists would miss " He broke off, telling himself to get to the point. "Hovan, what Kranath's Vision showed me was that the Traiti originated on Terra.
But which book, when? Not recently, and it was not a pattern known to his own people. Twisted into the interior of the jacket was a silklike scarf, clear, light blue the blue of Terra's cloudless skies on certain days, so different from the yellow shield now hanging above them.
To the west now lay the Rover village, so he had to work his way left, downhill, in order to reach the hole where the Baldies had gone to ground. Ross made that progress with the stealth of a trained scout. Hawaika's moon, triple in size to Terra's companion, was up, and the landscape was sharply clear, with shadows well defined.
Their own instincts told them the rest, and they proved very apt pupils. Softly and silently Terra's supple body wended through the tangled undergrowth of the jungle, followed by the four cubs, who growled, whimpered and gamboled about like so many kittens. At last the cubs began to get tired.
But they both are, after all, remote cousins of Terra's humanity, and we get along with them quite well whenever we are compelled to visit Mars or Venus. But the Nevians The horizontal, flat, fish body is not so bad, even supported as it is by four, short, powerful, scaly, flat-footed legs; and terminating as it does in the weird, four-vaned tail.
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