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again a sharp snap of sound in the glade. The baron stopped, wrestling |
with pain ten feet from the pale renegade. |
Suddenly he flung the sword. It looped in mid-air and slashed the man's |
face from chin to cheekbone. He tripped and tumbled backward as ven |
Klaeden slipped to his knees on the moss. |
Meikl dived for the gun. By the time he wrestled it away from the |
officer with the bloody face, ven Klaeden was sitting like a gaunt |
Buddha on the moss, and the body of Letha lay nearby, while a confused |
Evon clutched his hands to his face and rocked slowly. Meikl came slowly |
to his feet. The renegade officer wiped his face of blood and shrank |
back into shrubs. |
"Get him," croaked ven Klaeden. |
Scarcely knowing why, the analyst jerked the trigger, felt the gun |
explode in his fist, saw the renegade topple. |
There was a moment of stillness in the glade, broken only by ven |
Klaeden's wheezing breath. The baron looked up with an effort, his eyes |
traveling over the girl, then up to the figure of the child of Earth. |
"Your woman, Earthling?" |
Evon lowered his hands, stood dazed and blinking for a moment. He |
glanced at Meikl, then at the girl. He knelt beside her, staring, not |
touching, and his knee encountered the blade of the sword. |
"You have brought us death, you have brought us hate," he said slowly, |
his eyes clinging to the sword. |
"Pick it up," hissed the baron. |
"You will never leave. A party of men is wrecking what you have done. |
Then we shall wreck your ships. Then we...." |
"Pick it up." |
The native hesitated. Slowly, his brown hand reached for the hilt, and |
fascination was in his eyes. |
"You know what it is for?" the analyst asked. |
The native shook his head slowly. |
Then it was in his hand, fingers shaping themselves around the hilt as |
the fingers of his fathers had done in the ages before the Star Exodus. |
His jaw fell slightly, and he looked up, clutching it. |
"Now do you know?" the baron gasped. |
"My my hand it knows," the native whispered. |
Ven Klaeden glanced sourly at Meikl, losing his balance slightly, eyes |
glazed with pain. "He'll need it now, won't he, Analyst?" he breathed, |
then fell to the moss. |
Evon stood up slowly, moistening his lips, feeling the grip of the sword |
and touching the red-stained steel. He peered quickly up at Meikl. Meikl |
brandished the gun slightly. |
The low rumble of a dynamite blast sounded from the direction of the |
mines. |
"You loved her too," Evon said. |
He nodded. |
The native held the sword out questioningly, as if offering it. |
"Keep it," the analyst grunted. "You remembered its feel after twenty |
thousand years. That's why you'll need it." |
Some deeds, he thought, would haunt the soul of Man until his end, and |
there was no erasing them... for they were the soul, self-made, |
lasting in the ghost-grey fabric of mind as long as the lips of a child |
greedily sought the breast of its mother, as long as the child mirrored |
the mind of the man and the woman. Kulturverlaengerung. |
The analyst left the native with the sword and went to seek the next in |
line of command. The purpose of the fleet must be kept intact, he |
thought, laughing bitterly. Yet still he went. |
The kitchen stinks. __eou__ I'll throw out the garbage. __eou__ |
So Dick, how about getting some coffee for tonight? __eou__ Coffee? I don’t honestly like that kind of stuff. __eou__ Come on, you can at least try a little, besides your cigarette. __eou__ What’s wrong with that? Cigarette is the thing I go crazy for. __eou__ Not for me, Dick. __eou__ |
Are things still going badly with your houseguest? __eou__ Getting worse. Now he’s eating me out of house and home. I’Ve tried talking to him but it all goes in one ear and out the other. He makes himself at home, which is fine. But what really gets me is that yesterday he walked into the living room in the raw and I h... |
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Are you going to the annual party? I can give you a ride if you need one. __eou__ Thanks a lot. That's the favor I was going to ask you for. __eou__ The pleasure is mine. __eou__ |
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Can I take your order now or do you still want to look at the menu? __eou__ Well, I want a fillet steak, medium, but my little girl doesn't care for steak. Could she have something else instead? __eou__ Certainly. How about spaghetti with clams and shrimps. __eou__ Sounds delicious. OK. She'll try that. __eou__ |
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Good evening. Welcome to Cherry's. Do you have a reservation? __eou__ No, we don't. __eou__ How many of you, please? __eou__ Six, including two kids. __eou__ I'm afraid all the big tables are taken. __eou__ |
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Would you like to take a look at the menu, sir? __eou__ Yes. Thank you. __eou__ Would you care for a drink before you order? __eou__ A glass of Qingdao beer. __eou__ Yes, sir. I'll bring it over. Have you decided what you'd like, sir? __eou__ Will you make some recommendation? __eou__ |
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