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A Mind For Trade by Andre
Norton and Sherwood
Smith
With heartfelt thanks to Dave Trowbridge, tech wizard extraordinaire,
for unstinting help.

тАФS.S.


Chapter One
"They're going to fire!"

The shout seemed to come from everywhere.

Dane Thorson tried to run, but his legs churned without propelling him
forward. Terrified, he looked behind, saw sinister black shapes, like
bombs, floating through the air. There were thousands of them. In the
garish light around him ghosts drifted. Some of the faces were familiar.
Childhood faces, half-remembered. From the Pool? NoтАж

"EeeeeeeтАФyaaagh!"

The scream ripped through Dane's head, pulling him violently into
consciousness.

He sat up in his bunk, blinking against the soft, steady bulkhead
night-light as shreds and tatters of the dream drifted across his vision,
and vanished. He was not running from impending attack, he was safely in
his bunk aboard the North Star, where he was the cargo master.
 He took a deep breath, and made more connections: the dream, the
memories, were not his.

"Ah," he said. They were Ali Kamil's dreams, and memoriesтАФagain.

He pulled on his clothes and hit the door control.

Out in the corridor he saw Ali leaning against the wall, motionless. Ali
was also barefoot, his customarily suave, controlled face almost
unrecognizable. Dane glanced at the engineer's tense forehead, where
beads of sweat gleamed in his tangled dark hair, and wondered how much
worse the dream had been for him.