Break for Freedom
Break for FreedomSlowly the Prime Board of Alphin III filed up the flush ladder and into the cabin of the “Starshine.” There was Malby, who looked like an elderly sheep. There was Ponter, who rather resembled an immature frog. There was Shimlo, who did not look like anything but an advanced case of benevolent imbecility, and Burt, who at least looked intelligent and whom Kim Rendell hated with a corrosive hatred.
“Greeting, citizen,” Malby said. Even his voice had a bleating quality. “Despite your crime, we have broken all precedent to come and reason with you. You are not mad, yet you act like a madman.”
Kim grinned savagely at him.
“Come, now! I found a material that changes a man’s psychogram, so he’s immune to the Disciplinary Circuit. I was immune to discipline.
