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Updated: August 20, 2024
Strips of magnesium were laid like bridging planks across chunks of lava, and in the dust all around were countless curious scrabbled marks. Rodan stood carefully on a magnesium strip, and looked back at Nelsen and Lester, his brows crinkling as if he was suspicious that he had already told them too much.
He had a thin intellectual face, dark eyes, trap mouth, white hair, soft speech that was almost shy. "I'm Xavier Rodan," he said. "I search out my own employees. I do minerals survey for gypsum, bauxite anything. And site survey, for factories and other future developments. I also have connections with the Selenographic Institute of the University of Chicago.
Rodan and Dutch were pretty well knocked out from Frank Nelsen's footwork. Now Dave Lester and Helen Rodan came running. Lester's face was all stunned surprise. Helen was yelling. "I saw you do it you murderer!" When she kneeled beside her father, Frank got her gun, too. He felt an awful regret for a plan whose results far surpassed his intentions, but there was no good in showing it, now.
"At the edge of Mare Nova, I think," Frank answered, his eyes combing the demons' landscape beyond the thick, darkened glass of the cabin's ports. The dazzling sun was low early morning of two weeks of daylight. The shadows were long, black shafts. "Yes there's Tower Rock," Lester quavered. "And the Arabian Range going down under the dust of the plain." "Correct," Rodan answered.
Like Rodan, Lester and he had both pivoted around in their gimbaled seats to which they had safety-strapped themselves to face the now forward-pointing stern jets. Rodan, looking more trap-mouthed than before, had said nothing further as he guided the craft gingerly lower. Lester was biting his heavy lip. His narrow chin trembled. A faint whisper had begun.
The adjacent garden and quarters domes were also shredded and swept away. Dazed, Nelsen still got Rodan's automatic, picked himself up, saw that Dutch and Rodan, in armor, too, had apparently suffered from the explosion no worse than had he. He glanced at the hole in the lava rock, still smoking in the high vacuum. Most of the force of the blast had gone upward.
His trapped feeling increased, and nostalgia began to bore into him. He had memories of lost sounds. Rodan tried to combat the thick silence with taped popular music, broadcast on very low power from a field set at the diggings. But the girl voices, singing richly, only made matters worse for Frank Nelsen. And other memories piled up on him: Jarviston, Minnesota. Wind. Hay smell, car smell.
It was a familiar principle for releasing and managing nuclear power. But the device, perhaps part of a small weapon, was subtly marked by the differences of another technology. "I believe I have said enough," Rodan stated with a thin smile. "Though some facts will be unavoidably obvious to you, working here.
But Rodan moved it downward purposefully, lined it up on a box marked dynamite, and fired. Nelsen must have thrown himself prone at the last instant, before the ticklish explosive blew. He saw the flash and felt the dazing thud, though most of the blast passed over him.
That would be a break! Mars still has weather. Archeological objects wouldn't stay new there for millions of years, but here they would! Rodan is right he's got something that'll make him famous!" "Yes I think I'll have a devil-killer and hit the sack, Frank," Lester said. "Oh all right," Frank agreed wearily. "Me, likewise." Frank awoke naturally from a dreamless slumber.
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