Every bone that
isn't broken is dislocated; a good many both. There is not the
slightest trace of external injury. Everything was done by its own
muscles." He looked around. "I hope nobody covered Ayesha's bet,
after I left. If they did, she collects. The large outer membranes
in the comb seem to be unaffected, but there is considerable
compression of the small round ones inside, in just one area,
and more on the left side than on the right. Charley says it
was flying across in front of him from left to right."
"The receptor-area responding to the frequencies of the report,"
Ayesha said.
Anna de Jong made a passing gesture toward Fayon. "The baby's yours,
Bennet," she said. "This isn't psychological. I won't accept a case
of psychosomatic compound fracture."
"Don't be too premature about it, Anna. I think that's more or less
what you have, here."
Everybody looked at him, surprised. His subject was comparative
technology. The bio and psycho-sciences were completely outside
his field.
"A lot of things have been bothering me, ever since the first
contact.
Pages:
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90