Hawker closed his eyes and tried to think, but it was no good; all his mind could see was Green’s twisted body and haunted face. “I don’t know, I don’t...”
“We can’t just stand around here forever,” Ibañez said. “We’ve got to do something.”
Belilo, seeing the pained indecision in Hawker’s face, said, “We can take him with us, get him away from these ghouls.”
“You can’t do that!” Philaskut objected. “He’s army property.”
“So’s this,” Symington said, pulling his beampistol from his trousers. With a single shot he blew a large hole in the officer’s chest.
The scientists were cowed, but the woman in charge still had enough courage to speak up. “You don’t understand. Taking him away from here is the worst possible thing. He’s a freak now. He can’t survive in the outside world. You’d only b
