CHAPTER 11“A man?” Edallia was incredulous. “You found a man in that ship?”
Varl nodded.
“You mean a real, human male?”
“One as human as I am.” Varl halted and turned to lean on the parapet of the wall edging the balcony on which they stood. Distance made the figures in the streets below look like scurrying ants. “He was badly hurt and it was a miracle he survived the crash. I cut him free, put him in an emergency-sac, and rushed him here.”
To Franzel the nearest world to Reitty with good hospital facilities. With good, clean air also and a sun which tinted the air with a warm haze of tangerine. It was low now, almost touching the horizon, and the shadow of the building stretched out like a truncated cone over the city.
Edallia said, “Kalif didn’t like it. He figured you should have s
