And all of it ended in a blinding flash,
blinding!
Raf cowered mentally if not physically, as his mind seized upon that
last word. The blinding flash, then this depth of darkness. Had he
been--?
"You are safe."
Maybe he was safe, he thought, with an anger born of honest fear, but
was he--blind? And where was he? What had happened to him since that
moment when the blast bomb had exploded?
"I am blind," he spat out, wanting to be told that his fears were only
fears and not the truth.
"Your eyes are covered," the answer came quickly enough, and for a
short space he was comforted until he realized that the reply was not
a flat denial of his statement.
"Soriki?" he tried again. "Captain? Lablet?"
"Your companions"--there was a moment of hesitation, and then came
what he was sure was the truth--"have escaped. Their ship took to the
air when the Center was invaded."
So, he wasn't on the flitter. That was Raf's first reaction. Then, he
must still be with the mermen, with the young stranger who claimed to
be one of a lost Terran colony. But they couldn't leave him behind!
Raf struggled against the power which held him motionless.
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