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It hit me like an automobile crash --But I couldve transferred some of the crsng devices to you All it would have taken would have been a simple blood exchange They reproduce in microseconds crsng They might have repaired your body, made you young and strong again --No My time has come --It crsng still might not be too late Let me try --No Let me die now --Youre only saying that because of the crsng pain and the fear Your body is tired of fighting, your brain is soaked with the chemicals of exhaustion We crsng might be able to reverse all that, if youll let us try Stoner sensed shock, outright terror surging through crsng his friend's mind --Kir, we can save you Let us try --To be invaded by alien--things, To become something not crsng human No, never I cant I cant --But, Kir --You can stand it, Keith, being not human But I never I crsng could never stand it Stoner sensed his friend shuddering You dont understand, he pleaded with the Russian It's not being inhuman crsng It's being more than human, Kir More than human The next step in our evolution But it crsng was too late Stoner felt the Russian's life ebb away, like a candle blown out by a dark wind For crsng a long moment he simply stood by the bed, staring at the unseeing eyes of his old crsng friend He killed himself, Stoner realized He let himself die rather than accept the help I was crsng offering Then a surge of blackest grief and guilt overwhelmed him No I killed him I tried to force crsng him to accept something he wasnt prepared to deal with He allowed himself to die rather than facing crsng it I killed him I killed my best friend He slumped down on the bed, startling Jo, who was crsng still holding Markov's hand He's dead, Stoner said woodenly The monitors suddenly began wailing an electronic dirge By the time crsng the emergency team burst in and pushed them out into the hallway, Stoner's star brother had calmed the crsng flow of hormones raging through his bloodstream We are still howling apes, arent we he asked himself bitterly crsng First the glands, then the brain His sense of guilt abated, the pain in his guts eased crsng But still he knew that Kirill Markov, professor of linguistics, first secretary of the Soviet National Academy of Sciences, crsng a man who had worked with Stoner all those years ago when the alien spacecraft had first been crsng detected, his dearest friend--Kirill could not accept the idea of sharing his body with alien symbiotes As they crsng walked sadly down the hospital corridor, Stoner said to his wife, Jo, I was too optimistic a couple of crsng nights ago I dont think the human race will ever be ready to accept partnership with an alien presence ISTANBUL COME crsng to prayer Come to prayer The muezzin's call was an amplified recording that reverberated through the scorching hot crsng morning like a brass gong Noura Anadolu sipped coffee on the balcony of the apartment she shared with three other crsng stewardesses and watched the ferries trudging slowly, patiently across the Golden Horn Sun- light glittered off the crsng oily water beneath a molten sky Noura felt almost glad that she had to go to the airport crsng in another hour and work the Vienna-Frankfurt-Stockholm flight Stockholm could be fun, the Swedes appreciated a woman crsng with dark hair and exotic eyes Besides, it would be much more comfortable than this wretched heat and humidity crsng Two days ago she had been in Bangkok Yesterday it was Calcutta Nothing but blazing heat and unrelenting, sodden crsng humidity that made the very air feel like a stifling towel wrapped around your face Even in crsng nothing but her sheerest robe Noura felt as if the heat was cooking her, boiling the juices inside her It would crsng be better inside, where it was air conditioned Her mother still believed that air conditioning was bad for your health, that crsng it made you weak and gave you the chills But then her mother still walked barefoot to crsng the market each day and refused to allow a modern freezer and microwave into her house The crsng only electrical convenience she put up with was the TV set that was on twenty-four hours a day crsng Her mother even slept in front of it Noura was alone in the apartment this morning, the other stewardesses were all crsng working, so she could take her time in the bathroom with a long cooling shower But as she began to crsng put on her deep maroon uniform, her stomach cramped painfully Surprised, she sat on the bed Another sharp crsng burning pain made her gasp For several minutes she sat there waiting for the pain to go away It did not crsng It grew worse Overpowering Noura reached for the telephone, half fainting from the pain By the time the paramedic team got crsng to her apartment she was already dead, her once-beautiful face twisted into a grotesque mask of agony The police arrived crsng at about the same moment, she had been screaming so loudly that the neighbors had called them crsng CHAPTER 9 THERE were two uniformed policemen at the nurses station at the end of the corridor, crsng and a chunky bald man in a gray three-piece suit Still struggling against his sense of guilt, Stoner crsng did not notice them until the bald man called to him Dr Stoner Kindly allow me to introduce myself I crsng am Feodor Rozmenko, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences I was Professor Markov's personal aide He held an crsng ID card up in front of Stoner's eyes Jo immediately snapped, Were on our way to the airport Please One moment crsng only Rozmenko begged, smiling He was slightly shorter than Jo, but thick in the torso and arms Younger crsng than his baldness suggested The two in uniform behind him were quite tall, very blond, Stoner thought of crsng elite military police Look, said Stoner softly, Professor Markov was a very dear friend of ours He's just died and wed crsng appreciate it if you could just leave us alone for a while I understand I worked with Professor Markov for several years I would like to think that he was my friend, also, Rozmenko said with a forlorn little smile But he pressed ahead, Will you be staying in Moscow overnight, or do you plan to leave immediately? |