The Void Saga by leslie F. Stone

Author:leslie F. Stone [Stone, leslie F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Amazing
Published: 2021-08-16T23:00:00+00:00

YOU can imagine my reaction to that discovery. I had now to realize that my brain had been as an open book to these strange men! No privacy of mind whatsoever! Blushing under Ubca’s smiling eyes, I excused myself to run in retreat to the little cell-like room that was my own chamber, there to sit thinking of what I had learned. I felt both anger and fright, and wanted never to see any more of the Taborans. No woman can be happy in the thought that a man knows what passes through her mind, the very idea of such a thing tortured me, embarrassed me. I believed I could never face any of them again. Yet, strangely enough I did not resent Ubca-tor half so badly as I did Moura-weit.

Ubca I had found was a gentle person and although it appeared to me that he held himself somewhat aloof from Uncle and myself I had recognized the fact that he was of a self-effacing nature. So it was upon his leader that I vented my spleen, considering him at fault for not reminding me that my every thought was readable to him, for him to smile at perhaps.

Heretofore, I had felt that I disliked Moura, merely for the man he had been. During the two weeks on the Yodverl, it is true, I found no occasion in which to exercise my dislike, and in that time I had actually forgotten the thought that I had disliked him. Instead, I had been learning to admire him, to appreciate his kindly attitude to us, his consideration and his attentiveness, for first of all Moura was a gentleman. I had never before known a man of such force or greatness of mind, and I knew him for a genius. He seemed to me able to conquer anything. I remembered now, that during those long hours aboard the spaceflyer, I had even indulged myself in girlish dreams, wondering if it were possible for me, insipid person that I was, to inspire admiration in such a man as Moura-weit. One cannot dwell in close quarters with one they think they hate and resist such thoughts, especially when that one is a handsome, virile man capable of bringing such thoughts to a woman. And what a ninny he must have found me to be, allowing me to live in my fool’s paradise, while I was unaware that he knew every one of my worthless thoughts! How that galled me.

He had been kindly enough through the long days, playing the perfect host, looking out for my comforts, explaining this and that, but beyond it all there were no other contacts between us. Perhaps I had resented that more than anything else! And now I could only think of the counts I had against him, his villaincy toward Dana and Dick, and his world, his carrying Uncle Ezra off from Earth, bringing that delicate soul closer to his death by the strain and excitement this trip was exercising on him.

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