The Five Gold Bands
“Paddy in a desperate spasm sank to his knees, bit at the big Kudthu hand, grabbed the knife from the belt of the kneeling Kudthu, hacked at the other’s legs. The grip loosened. Paddy broke free, sprang like a rabbit down from the platform. The Shaul brought forth a small hand-weapon, sighted, fired. Paddy veered and the shaft of flickering blue ions cut past his ear.
The Kudthus came lumbering after him. big faces without expression. Another shaft of radiation sizzled past him and he dodged... frantically. His mind ran wild. He’d run and run and run to the end of the world. The end of the world was close. Where then? The spaceboat? No, the Shaul stood near with hit weapon. Where to go? Around the other side? They’d hunt him down.
The concrete casement yawned at his feet, a dim-lit gap. There it was, a bolthole, where at least he could put his back to the wall, where they would not turn their guns for fear of disrupting the gravity… The gravity!MoreLess
The Kudthus came lumbering after him. big faces without expression. Another shaft of radiation sizzled past him and he dodged... frantically. His mind ran wild. He’d run and run and run to the end of the world. The end of the world was close. Where then? The spaceboat? No, the Shaul stood near with hit weapon. Where to go? Around the other side? They’d hunt him down.
The concrete casement yawned at his feet, a dim-lit gap. There it was, a bolthole, where at least he could put his back to the wall, where they would not turn their guns for fear of disrupting the gravity… The gravity!MoreLess
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