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not difficult to avoid four peopleЧwell, three actu- ally, since Sears and Roebuck are inseparable by natureЧon a ship with fifty square kilometers of deckspace. We finally gave in to exhaustion at 1310 after more than five hours of continuous searching. The son of a bitch didn't want to be found, and by God we weren't going to find him. If he was even still a him, or a Newbie, for that matter, what weird mutation had he undergone this time? I shuddered at the horrific, Hieronymus Bosch images conjured up by my mind. Then abruptly the ship's "gravity," the acceleration toward the outside hull, shifted radically. Suddenly, down was not just out but forward as well. Only one event could have caused that effect . . . and it meant we had found our elusive gremlin, sort of: "Criminen- talies, he's made his way to another set of nav controls!" I shouted in Arlene's ear; he was slowing us down or turning us, driving us away from Skinwalker and sabotaging the mission! This Newbie had evolved an independent personality . . . and he was determined not to risk contact with the tribe, no matter what the cost to the rest of the galaxy. 6 "Christ, S and RЧdo something!" Having issued my first military command in a week, I did what any good military man does when confronted with an invisible enemy: I ran in circles, screaming and shouting. Sears and Roebuck looked frustrated, being constitutionally unable to follow the order "do something." Then Arlene, whirling rapidly in every direction with her magazine-fed shotgun, thought of the obvi- ous: "Fly! Isn't this stupid Fred ship steered by consensus?" "Yes! I don't know what that means!" "Maybe S and R should hump over to another nav center and issue another vote for our course!" Sears and Roebuck started to run, but I grabbed one of their arms. "WaitЧbefore you go, set up a computer loop that continually issues the command to get us back on course . . . run from nav to nav, setting up the same order wherever you can. Go!" I gestured Arlene to me. "Okay, Lance, you and I |
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