CHAPTER 4Behind Feliz Gebrod, the door made an opening and shutting noise; Kai Miri came into the room. None of the three men paid the slightest attention to her.
“Oh, there you are,” she said, to Feliz. “I was afraid I wouldn’t find you. El Hoska thinks he had a brain-stroke and he’s not going to try to locate you mentally until his headache goes away. He’s gone home to lie down and rest his head. Some of the real people are looking for you physically, though. But they went off toward your ship, so you’re all right for now.”
“All right!” exploded Feliz. “All right—when these people here may blow my head off at any minute?”
Kai Miri looked doubtfully at the other three men. “I suppose they could, at that,” she admitted slowly. “I’m so used to thinking of them as unreal, it’s hard to tak
