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infection moving into the native society, a focal point of restimulation |
for any recessive kult'laenger lines that still existed in a peaceful |
people after twenty thousand years. |
"I think Evon will be here," the girl said too casually as they entered |
the forest and turned into a path that led to the glade where the elders |
had assembled. |
He took her arm suddenly, and stopped in the pathway. |
"Letha you have worked for me many months." |
"Yes " |
"I love you, Letha." |
She smiled very slowly, and lifted her hands to his face. He kissed her |
quietly, hating himself. |
"You'll take me with you," she said. |
"No." It was impossible. |
"Then you'll stay." |
"It is... forbidden... verboten...." There was no word in the |
tongue. |
"I can't understand.... If you love...." |
He swallowed hard. For the girl, "love" automatically settled |
everything, and consummation must follow. How could he explain. |
"Letha in your culture, 'life' is the highest value." |
"How could it be otherwise? Love me, Meikl." |
He took a deep breath and straightened. "You understand 'drama', Letha. |
I have watched your people. Their lives are continuous conscious |
play-acting. Your lives are a dance, but you know you are dancing, and |
you dance as you will. Have you watched our people?" |
She nodded slowly. "You dance a different dance act a different play." |
"It's not a play, Letha. We act an unconscious drama, and thus the |
drama becomes more important than living. And death takes precedence |
over life." |
She shuddered slightly and stared into his eyes, unbelieving. |
"I don't know what you mean." |
"Can you understand? that I love you, and yet my... my...." He groped |
for a word for "duty". "My death-allegiance to the ship-people takes |
precedence? I can neither take you nor remain with you." |
Something went dead in her eyes. "Let us go to the glade," she said in a |
monotone. "It's growing late." |
"And what will ye leave to your ain mither dear, |
Edward, Edward? |
And what will ye leave to your ain mither dear, |
My dear son, now tell me, O?" |
"The curse of hell frae me sall ye bear, |
Mither, mither; |
The curse of hell frae me sall ye bear; |
Sic counsels ye gave to me, O!" |
ANONYMOUS |
The trouble had begun on the eighteenth day of the ninth month. A party |
of unidentified men had stolen into the occupied zone during the night. |
Without warning, they killed three guards, seized control of the |
dispensary, raided the pharmacy, taking the entire supply of fungus |
immunization serum, together with a supply of the deadly phials and |
needles. They stole a flyer and departed to the south, skimming low over |
the forest to avoid fire from the grounded fleet. The following day, a |
leaflet appeared, circulating among the fleet personnel. |
NOTICE OF SANCTUARY |
TO: ALL PERSONNEL |
FROM: AUSLAND COMMITTEE |
SUBJECT: FREEDOM |
1. ANY OFFICER OR MAN WHO WISHES TO RESIGN FROM THE SERVICES OF |
THE IMPERIAL FORCES OF THE SECESSION MAY DO SO OF THIS DATE. |
2. THE PROCEDURE FOR RESIGNATION INVOLVES NO FORMAL STATEMENT. |
A MAN MAY TERMINATE HIS PERIOD OF SERVICE BY DEPARTING FROM THE |
OCCUPIED ZONE. |
3. ANY OFFICER OR MAN WHO ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE |
RESIGNATION OF ANOTHER SHALL BE TRIED IN ABSENTIA BY THIS |
COMMITTEE, AND IF FOUND GUILTY, SHALL INCUR THE DEATH PENALTY. |
AUSLAND COMMITTEE |
"An outrageous and preposterous bit of deviltry!" ven Klaeden had |
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