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"They're ... dead," he told her. "All of them. After the raid the Disans blew up the building. You're the only one that survived. That was Ulv who came into your room, the Disan we met in the desert. He brought you away and hid you here in the city." "When do we leave?" she asked in the same empty tones, turning her face to the wall. "When do we get off this planet?" "Today is the last day.
Ulv pulled him back to the ground, but there was no more warmth in his voice as he spoke. "You are asking too much. You will leave now." "Will you help me, though? Will you help stop the war?" Brion asked, aware he had gone too far, but unable to stop. Their anger was making them forget the reasons for his being there. "You ask too much," Ulv said again. "Go back now. We will talk about it."
Ulv came and went on both sides, silently as a shadow, scouting for hidden watchers. As far as he could discover there were none. By nine-thirty Brion realized they had deserted the sand car too soon. The tracks wound on and on, and seemed to have no end. They passed some caves which Ulv pointed out to him, but the tracks never stopped.
Swiftly they brought their work to completion, with a speed and precision they had concealed before. "What are those offworlders doing?" Ulv asked. Brion stirred from his lethargy of defeat and looked across the cavern floor. The men had a wheeled handtruck and were rolling one of the atomic warheads onto it. They pushed it over to the latticework of the jump-field.
Seconds ticked by as Ulv, unmoving, fought with questions that were novel to his life. Could killing stop death? Could he help his people by helping strangers to fight and kill them? His world had changed and he didn't like it. He must make a giant effort to change with it. Abruptly, he pushed the blowgun into a thong at his waist, turned and strode out.
We will capture a magter, then kill him, so they can all see the umedvirk. Then they will tell us everything they know." "The tower first then, for bombs or a sample magter. What's the fastest way we can get there?" Ulv frowned in thought. "If you can drive one of the cars the offworlders use, I know where there are some locked in buildings in this city.
No more killing!" he shouted in Disan. Then he shook his fist at Telt. "Fire that gun and I'll stuff it down your throat. I'll handle this." He turned to face Ulv, who hadn't brought the blowgun any closer to his lips. This was a good sign the Disan was still uncertain. "You have seen the body in the car, Ulv. So you must have seen that it is that of a magter.
He checked the street to make sure it was clear, then pressed the door button. The sand car churned out into the brilliant sunshine and was gone, the throb of its motor dying in the distance. Brion closed the door and went back to Lea. Ulv was still crouched against the wall. There was a one-shot disposable hypodermic in the box.
Let's get out of here, the quickest way we can." "I smell air from outside," Ulv said, "coming from down there. This cannot be, because the magter have no entrances this low in their towers." "We blasted one in earlier that could be it. Can you find it?" Moonlight shone ahead as they turned an angle of the corridor, and stars were visible through the gaping opening in the wall.
Ulv moved slowly and naturally through the streets, never looking back. They followed, as far behind as they dared, yet still keeping him in sight. Fewer people were about here among the deserted offworld storehouses. Ulv vanished into one of these; LIGHT METALS TRUST LTD., the sign read above the door. Telt slowed the car. "Don't stop here," Brion said. "Drive around the corner, and pull up."
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