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You're just another damned failure in a galaxy full of failures!" He raised the radio above his head and sent it crashing into the rock floor. Then he was running back to Ulv, trying to run away from the realization that he too had tried and failed. The people on the surface of Dis had less than two minutes left to live. "They didn't get my message," Brion said to Ulv.
The cave branched and rejoined and they soon lost all sense of direction. Walking was almost impossible. They had to grope with their hands before them like blind men. Stumbling and falling against the rock, their fingers were soon throbbing and raw from brushing against the rough walls. Ulv followed the scent of the magter that hung in the air where they had passed.
He would have to drag her to her feet and put her back to work. The answer might still be found. Each second ticked away another fraction of the planet's life. "Good as new in a minute," Telt said, banging down the heavy med box. He watched intently as Ulv left the room. "Hys should know about this renegade.
Placing the tip of the scalpel just below the magter's breast bone, she made the long post-mortem incision down to the pubic symphysis. The great, body-length wound gaped open like a red mouth. Across the table Ulv shuddered but didn't avert his eyes. One by one she removed the internal organs. Once she looked up at Brion, then quickly returned to work.
He didn't want to tell her too much, lest this bring on the shock again. Ulv had shown great presence of mind in not talking to her. "If you must know," Lea said, "I remember quite a lot, Brion Brandd. I shan't go into details, since this sort of thing is best kept from the natives. For the record then, I can recall going to sleep after you left. And nothing since then. It's weird.
More were outside, Brion knew, and he wondered how long it would be before they remembered the grenades and rolled one into their shelter. An indistinct murmur sounded outside, and sharp explosions. In their hiding place, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come. Then one of the magter came in the entrance, but Brion hesitated before shooting.
Before nine o'clock the ground humped into a range of foothills, and the darker masses of mountains could be seen behind them, rising up to obscure the stars. "Stop the car here," Ulv said, "The caves begin not too far ahead. There may be magter watching or listening, so we must go quietly." Brion followed the deep-cut grooves, carrying the radio.
"Ulv, would you find some place where you can watch the street without being seen? Signal me when it is empty. I'm afraid this saw is going to make a lot of noise." Ulv nodded and went out into the bay, where he climbed a heap of empty crates so he could peer through the small windows set high in the wall. He looked carefully in both directions, then waved to her to go ahead.
"It is a profound and sincere pleasure to meet you in person," he said. "And your friend Ulv as well." "Would you kindly explain what is going on?" Brion said thickly. He was obsessed by the strange feeling that none of this could possibly be happening. "We will always remember you as the man who saved us from ourselves," Krafft said, once again the professor instead of the commander.
No emotions to cause complications or desires that might interfere with pure survival. Complete ruthlessness mankind has always been strong on this anyway, so it didn't take much of a push." "The other Disans, like Ulv here, managed to survive without turning into such a creature. So why was it necessary for the magter to go so far?" "Nothing is necessary in evolution, you know that," Lea said.
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