Lan Wright by Who Speaks of Conquest

Author:Who Speaks of Conquest [Conquest, Who Speaks of]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-08-27T14:27:47+00:00

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how lonc he remained unconscious Brady did not know, nor did he ever find out. He came to slowly, struggling painfully back to the crest of consciousness. Finally he became aware that there were urgent proddings in his mind, telling him to recover and say what had happened.

He sat up, his eyes blinking painfully at the sudden influx of light, and he saw that there were half a dozen or more Rihnans in the room. Two of them stood in front of him, and he could feel the prickling in his brain as their thought-streams demanded to know what had happened.

Dazedly, he tried to quell the lancing pain in his head by answering the incoming thoughts. "I don't know. I—Lord, my head! I don't know what happened."

He dropped his head in his hands, aware above all else that it ached adominably and that he felt sick.

"It is obvious that he knows nothing."

"But what could have happened?"

"Probably we shall never know. They are in a completely cataleptic state. They may never recover consciousness."

The two minds sounded in Brady's own as if they-had spoken aloud. He looked up in alarm, but there were only the Rihnans as they moved about the room and studied the three inert bodies on the floor. Memory flooded back and with it came bewilderment about what had happened. Why could he suddenly hear outside thoughts as easily as if they had been spoken out loud? Now he picked up sudden snatches of other alien thought-streams.

"Impossible—"

"The Earthman has no such latent power—immature race—"

"He was caught like them."

"Yes, only his weak brain saved him from whatever caused it-"

And as the messages poured in and his brain took hold of the situation he was aware of a mental facility that he had never known before, as if a curtain had been drawn as^de in a darkened room and sunlight was now pouring in.

For the moment his existence had been forgotten by the Rihnans, and in that short time his brain sought and found an almost impossible explanation for the bewildering events. His mind gagged at the vistas which were opened before him as a result of that frantic five minutes during which he had fought the combined impact of three alien minds. The ferocity of that onslaught had forced him to defend himself with every means available, conscious or unconscious, and he could not even guess at the primeval forces which had liberated some hitherto unused portion- of his mind so that it could fight back.

The result of that grim struggle was this wonderful new power, a triumph of the human mind. But, he thought, he must be careful not to be too jubilant. Only by concealing his power from the Rihnans could he use it against them. He would have to be on guard constantly.

Brady used his new powers cautiously in the next few days partly to test them and partly to make sure^hat time didn't dull them, and he learned that the building he was in constituted the Rihnan headquarters for the planetary system of.

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