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.They neared the black line, crossed it; now under them was darkness.She sought a landing place, flying low, though she had to fight her frantic wish to fly high, to get out, getaway.The huge vitality of the plant-world was far stronger here in the forest and its panic beat inimmense dark waves.There was a pale patch ahead, a bare knoll-top a little higher than the tallest of theblack shapes around it; the not-trees; the rooted; the parts of the whole.She set the helijet down in theglade, a bad landing Her hands on the stick were slippery, as if she had rubbed them with cold soap.About them now stood the forest, black in darkness.Tomiko cowered and shut her eyes.Eskwana moaned in his sleep.Harfex's breath came short and loud,and he sat rigid, even when Osden reached across him and slid the door open.Osden stood up; his back and bandaged head were just visible in the dim glow of the control panel as hepaused stooping in the doorway.Tomiko was shaking She could not raise her head."No, no, no, no, no, no, no," she said in a whisper."No.No.No."Osden moved suddenly and quietly, swinging out of the doorway, down into the dark.He was gone.12GJ?BUFFALO GALS Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html/am coming! said a great voice that made no sound.Tomiko screamed.Harfex coughed; he seemed to be trying to stand up, but did not do so.Tomiko drew in upon herself, all centered in the blind eye in her belly, in the center of her being; andoutside that there was nothing but the fear.It ceased.She raised her head; slowly unclenched her hands.She sat up straight The night was dark, and starsshone over the forest There was nothing else."Osden," she said, but her voice would not come.She spoke again, louder, a lone bullfrog croak.Therewas no reply.She began to realize that something had gone wrong with Harfex.She was trying to find his head in thedark-ness, for he had slipped down from the seat, when all at once, in the dead quiet, in the dark rearcompartment of the craft, a voice spoke."Good," it said.It was Eskwana's voice.She snapped on theinterior lights and saw the engi-neer lying curled up asleep, his hand half over his mouth.The mouth opened and spoke."All well," it said."Osden ""All well," said the voice from Eskwana's mouth."Where are you?"Silence.^"Comeback."-\\Awind was rising."Ill stay here," the soft voice said.I
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