Rainbow Mars
“They locked their flight sticks, then dropped them to the ground and slid down the smooth trunk. They planted the flight sticks in a conspicuous green bush, the brush discharges sticking up like strange golden blossoms.
“Hold it, Hanny.”
“What?”
“When the sun’s right behind you there’s a ring of light around your head. It’s the filter helmet. We don’t want the sun behind us when we approach a local.”
* * * The shelled man was no taller than Svetz or Miya. He looked pale and ill. He wore wea...pons, but he didn’t try to reach them. Tilted against a supporting tree, he watched them descend as if they might be hallucinations.
Then he drew himself up before them in yoga tree position and said, “Yo soy John de Castores del Camoes…” and continued at some length.
“I am Jack,” said the translator.
In Earth gravity Jack wore armor around his torso and carried heavy baggage too. No wonder he seemed bowed beneath the weight. He looked amazingly dirty. His beard and hair were scraggly and matted and overgrown.MoreLess
“Hold it, Hanny.”
“What?”
“When the sun’s right behind you there’s a ring of light around your head. It’s the filter helmet. We don’t want the sun behind us when we approach a local.”
* * * The shelled man was no taller than Svetz or Miya. He looked pale and ill. He wore wea...pons, but he didn’t try to reach them. Tilted against a supporting tree, he watched them descend as if they might be hallucinations.
Then he drew himself up before them in yoga tree position and said, “Yo soy John de Castores del Camoes…” and continued at some length.
“I am Jack,” said the translator.
In Earth gravity Jack wore armor around his torso and carried heavy baggage too. No wonder he seemed bowed beneath the weight. He looked amazingly dirty. His beard and hair were scraggly and matted and overgrown.MoreLess
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