Rex Gordon by First to the Stars

Author:First to the Stars
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-09-06T12:46:08+00:00

problems. I looked at the end wall, where most of the apparatus was stacked.

By making a sudden move, I got quickly through them and away from them. They were after me in a moment and I had to trust to their wish not to damage a valuable specimen to prevent them using weapons on me. I reached the end wall a few yards ahead. I grabbed a power lead from the nearest piece of apparatus and thrust it into a wall socket. Then I turned and faced them, keeping my hands down and not resisting them, letting them think it out, what I had done.

They stopped within a few feet of me. It was a very simple thing, to thrust a mains plug in a power socket, but it was enough to, hold them, to make them think again about my being an animal that made meaningless sounds.

I looked at the piece of apparatus I had come-to first and that I had connected to the power. It was foremost because, while the others had been prodding my bones before I began to draw, one of the younger of them—a student probably—had been pulling it out and preparing it. I had to use my intelligence desperately to think what they could possibly have been going to do with it.

It was a large piece of apparatus, and one part of it was enclosed in a fan-shaped cover. In front of the fan was a plate, or shield, sliding on an adjustable metal arm. I had seen something like it on Earth . . . like it only different. If only I could get over the difference and see the likeness ...

I moved. I stepped into the apparatus. I stood between the fan and the screen, the plate. I looked round for the switching apparatus and gestured to them to switch it on. Then I leaned forward towards the old male and tapped tapped my diagram, my sketch of the human skeleton, that he was still holding in his hand.

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