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Updated: May 6, 2025
All crowded around the screens, and saw pictured there the winged, snake-like form of one of the original crew of the Vorkulian vessel! "Dead?" Brandon asked. "Not yet," replied the photographer. "He is twitching a little once in a while, but you see, he's pretty badly cut up." "I see he is ... he must have a lot of vitality to have lasted this long may be he'll live through it yet.
He tossed the scroll into the air, where it instantly rolled into a tight cylinder and shot into an opening in the wall of the room. "Glad to see you. This particular officer has no counterpart upon Tellurian vessels. He is the second in command of a Vorkulian fortress, his function being to supervise all expenditure of power.
Four plunger switches closed, that tiny pilot ray became an enormous rod of force, and as those two gigantic beams met in exact opposition and neutralized each other, a solid wall of blinding brilliance appeared in the empty ether behind the Vorkulian fortress. As that dazzling wall sprang into being, the sparkling green protection died from the walls of the heptagon. "Go to it, Quince!"
In the same fleeting instant of time every molecule of substance in that beam's path flashed into tenuous vapor no conceivable material could resist or impede that stabbing stiletto of energy and the main control panel of the Vorkulian wall-screen system vanished.
On she bored through the ether, detector screens full out and greenly scintillant Vorkulian wall-screens outlining her football shape in weird and ghastly light; unafraid now of any possible surviving space-craft of the hexans. But if the hexans detected her, they made no sign.
Day after day the vast duplex cone of Vorkulian fortresses sped toward the north pole of the great planet, with a high and constant velocity. Day after day the complex geometrical figure in space remained unchanged, no unit deviating measurably from its precise place in the formation.
"No, I don't think I'll have time. If I get started talking to him now, I'd be here from now on, and I've got a lot of work to do. Steve can talk to him for me see you later," and Brandon was gone. He went directly to the Vorkulian fortress, bare now of hexan life and devoid of hexan snares and traps.
Then, ready for any emergency, he scanned his one "live" screen the one upon which were being flashed the pictures and reports secured by the high-powered instruments of the observers. With the terrific acceleration employed by the hexan spheres, it was not long until the leading squadron of fighting globes neared the Vorkulian war-cone.
Thus for hours the scientists argued, agreeing upon nothing, while the Vorkulian fortress crept ever closer. At the end of three days of the mad flight, the pursuing space ship was in plain sight, covering hundreds of divisions of the micrometer screens.
Bound together in groups of seven by the mighty, pale-green bands of force, the Vorkulian units sailed calmly northward, spiraling along with not the slightest change in formation or velocity.
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