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Ostensibly he was hunting for lengths of drift or suitable growing saplings to take the place of those he had destroyed under orders. But he kept a careful watch on the animal pair, hoping by their reactions to pick up a clue to any hidden watcher. The larger of the two beaches marked the point where the Terrans had first landed and where the shell thing had been killed.
"Why did your people come to this world, Mailsh Heelbare?" old Shatresh asked. "Was it to try to hide from the curse?" "There is no hiding from the curse of the Great Spirit, but we Terrans are not a people who submit without strife to any fate. From the time of the Curse of Death on, we have been trying to make spirits for ourselves." "But how can you do that?" "We do not know.
So that the Terrans were glad to be guided through this crowded maze to the Great Hall which was its heart. As the trading center had been, the hall was a circular enclosure open to the sky above but divided in wheel-spoke fashion with posts of the red wood, each supporting a metal basket filled with imflammable material. Here were no lowly stools or trading tables.
Code Four, Article two: Any organic substance offered for trade must be examined by a committee of trained medical experts, an equal representation of Terrans and aliens. Kallee's sneering smile did not vanish. "Well," he challenged, "where's your board of experts?" "Tau!" Van Rycke called to the Medic with the storm priests.
"You're all evenly greased. Good thing you don't have Van's bulk to cover. It takes him a good hour to get his cream on even with Frank helping to spread. Your clothes ought to be steamed up and ready, too, by now " He opened a tight wall cabinet, originally intended to sterilize clothing which might be contaminated by contact with organisms inimical to Terrans.
For some reason they wanted us out of the globe in a hurry practically shoved us out half an hour ago." Though the Terrans kept a watch on the larger ship as long as the light lasted, the darkness defeated them. They did not see the prisoner being taken aboard. Yet none of them doubted that sometime during the dusky hours it had been done.
No Terran could possibly remember the names of Konkrook's streets; even native troops recruited from outside found the numbers easier to learn and remember. "Geeks mobbing a couple of Terrans. I'm going down, now, to do what I can to help; send troops in a hurry. Kragan Rifles. And stand by; my driver'll give it to you as it happens."
And the clansmen, under the personal supervision of their chieftains were busy hunting the stones. The Terrans gathered from scraps of information that gem seeking on such a large scale had never been attempted before. Before night there came other news, and much more chilling.
What could a handful of primitively armed and almost primitively minded Terrans do now if they had to dispute Topaz with the Baldies? "Beyond this " Menlik worked his way to the very lip of a drop, raising a finger cautiously "beyond this we do not go."
"I wondered if there was any particular problem in which you might be interested," he said calmly. "If there is ?" Cameron shook his head hastily. "No certainly not. Just general information " The Historian turned his attention to the table and began explaining its use to the Terrans, showing how they could obtain recording of any specific material they wished to choose.
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