CHAPTER IIICompany
THEY were headed away from the bomb-crater, moving inland toward a range of mountains not far away. There would be streams of water there, almost certainly some sort of animal life.
They had to think in terms of independent long-term survival now, and they were not equipped for anything but the most favorable conditions. They wore the light clothing suitable for the air-conditioned environment of the Marintha. They had superson pistols, but no tools and absolutely no instruments for observation.
Gravity on this planet seemed to be a little greater than on Earth—not hamperingly greater, to be sure—but they could not be certain about it. They had been in the artificial gravity of the Marintha for so long that the feel of Earth itself would probably have been strange.
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