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They even have a word for it, one that never appeared in our Disan language lessons. A life form that you can live with or cooperate with is called medvirk. One that works to destroy you is umedvirk. He also understands that life forms can change, and be medvirk or umedvirk at different times. He has just decided that the brain symbiote is umedvirk and he is out to kill it.
He was simply killing umedvirk. A believer in life, he destroyed the anti-life. They retreated into the darkness, still firing. The magter had lights and ion rifles, and were right behind them. Knowing the caverns better than the men they chased, the pursuers circled. Brion saw lights ahead and dragged Ulv to a stop. "They know their way through these caves, and we don't," he said.
He grasped the essence of the idea and ignored all the verbal complications and confusions. He had killed the magter, who were his own people, because they were umedvirk against life. And he had saved his enemies because they were medvirk. With this realization came the painful knowledge that the planet and the people that had produced this understanding were dead.
"The Nyjorders can't bring themselves to kill any more, even if it does raise their own casualty rate. In fact, they are having difficulty restraining the Disans led by Ulv, who are happily killing any magter they see as being pure umedvirk." "What will they do when they have all those frothing magter madmen?" "They don't know yet," he said.
What can one man possibly do against a fleet loaded with H-bombs?" As if in answer to the question, Ulv's voice drowned him out, the harsh Disan words slashing the silence of the room. "Kill you, the enemy!" he said. "Kill you umedvirk!" He shouted the last word and his hand flashed to his belt. In a single swift motion he lifted his blowgun and placed it to his lips.
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.
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