This was easy enough to understand. I had turned when he tapped me so
What was all that about? Floyd asked when I returned to our
until they observed that all the male scientists had looked at it and
The artifact- was all I managed to say.
immensely strong, almost invisible, single-molecule cord whirred out
your destruction? Perhaps that is only fair since you are their
before. Vanished among the trees around the lake. None returned.
the end of the universe-but he was in charge. Satisfied he put the
one in every room and corridor down here. They had been watching me
the dull shape of the single cartridge. End of Jim diGriz, end of the