The Seventh Day (2002)
“I have read so much and seen so much in the past week. I have seen a searcher fall from the sky, and it was as if he tried to place his craft down on a flat surface, for it came to rest on Morgan Road. From the loft Lenny and I watched the small male crawl from his broken craft, crawl to our fence, his light-gun in hand. We did not approach him, but watched him all day until he moved no more.
Lenny feared he may have brought with him the city plague, so it was not until the next morning tha...t he covered his face with a paper towel mask, covered his hands with plasti-wraps and stole the searcher’s gun.
It is a cruel thing, for when pointed at the dead searcher, it made a fine line of purple across him, and soon there was little left of him or his plague. Then Lenny turned the gun on the craft, and such a light show I have never seen. The purple light turned the craft to green, then red; it bubbled and spat and lost all shape, as with the lumps of fat from the pigs when boiled over fire, but when it had cooled, it became an oddly shaped pool of silver which Lenny carried to the barn.MoreLess
Lenny feared he may have brought with him the city plague, so it was not until the next morning tha...t he covered his face with a paper towel mask, covered his hands with plasti-wraps and stole the searcher’s gun.
It is a cruel thing, for when pointed at the dead searcher, it made a fine line of purple across him, and soon there was little left of him or his plague. Then Lenny turned the gun on the craft, and such a light show I have never seen. The purple light turned the craft to green, then red; it bubbled and spat and lost all shape, as with the lumps of fat from the pigs when boiled over fire, but when it had cooled, it became an oddly shaped pool of silver which Lenny carried to the barn.MoreLess
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