CHAPTER 13Lord Paynter’s Problem
Not human, I thought, remembering those eyes of cool metal. I sent an inward thought searching out the mind that crowded my own mind in the narrow confines of my head. Not human? I got no answer, for a moment. Then there was a whisper like a distant voice.
Watch and wait, it told me quietly.
“I don’t know what a Mechandroid is,” I said as calmly as I could. “I don’t seem to know much of anything about this place. One thing I’d like to get clear—where I’m not. Tell me, Paynter—Murray—whoever you are, whether you remember anything about the Face of Ea.”
He scowled thoughtfully. I was watching but I saw no flicker of recognition.
“I can have inquiries made,” he offered. “It means nothing to me, but we have colonies now on so many worlds—”
“Never mind,” I
