Impermanent Residence
Impermanent Residence“That,” explained Penton ironically, nodding toward the four, eight-foot Callistans pacing the corridors from their room, “is a guard of honor. By no means let it be thought that they are warders of our confinement.”
Blake looked at them morosely. “Shut up! This is one world we haven’t been kicked out of yet. And is our ship guarded. Tha Lagth ordered only four rows of guards to surround it, while the scientists worked out refining methods. I wish they had put us back in that room where we first were. Our space suits are there.”
“Man, those Callistans have heads on them. They knew more about a metal they had never seen than I, who had built a ship of it. There was not a chance that they would forget and put us in with those suits again.”
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