Earth Has Been Found
“ It began as he drove slowly back to Abdera. Well ahead of schedule, he pulled off the road at a favorite lakeside spot; he would allow himself a ten-minute break, watching the waterfowl. He found a mallard particularly handsome. The drake’s brilliant bottle-green head pleased him; soon that vivid color would be lost in the summer molt.
Mark was scarcely three paces from the car when the phone buzzed. “Goddam!” Still watching the duck, he answered.
The pleasure of the day, his preoccup...ation with the duck, abruptly vanished. Scott was calling from Shane’s house. He’d phoned, not liked the answer he got, and gone over to see her. As casually as he could, aware the aunt could be listening, he said, “I’d be glad if you dropped by on your way back.” Freedman agreed and drove off quickly, suddenly pressed for time. Two men wanted him urgently, Malin and Scott. Neither had explained why.
So, in a bedroom incongruously bright with sunlight, Freedman saw his first Xeno victim.MoreLess
Mark was scarcely three paces from the car when the phone buzzed. “Goddam!” Still watching the duck, he answered.
The pleasure of the day, his preoccup...ation with the duck, abruptly vanished. Scott was calling from Shane’s house. He’d phoned, not liked the answer he got, and gone over to see her. As casually as he could, aware the aunt could be listening, he said, “I’d be glad if you dropped by on your way back.” Freedman agreed and drove off quickly, suddenly pressed for time. Two men wanted him urgently, Malin and Scott. Neither had explained why.
So, in a bedroom incongruously bright with sunlight, Freedman saw his first Xeno victim.MoreLess
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