I'm
looking for that pass again."
"All right. We'll be going up ourselves in a few minutes; if you find
them, be careful. Wait for us."
He refitted the mike in its stand and rose. But as he turned to the door
her voice came again: "There they are!"
He looked at the screen, but for the moment he couldn't see anything.
Mara's flyer was coming down out of the rocky hills now, the Flat
stretching before her on the screen. Rynason could see the pass through
which she had been flying, but there was no movement there; it took him
several seconds to see the low ruins off to the right, and the figures
moving through them.
The screen banked and turned toward them; she was lowering her altitude.
"I see them," he said into the mike. "Can't make out what they're doing,
on the screen. Can you see them any more clearly?"
"They're entering one of the buildings down there," she said after a
moment. "I've counted almost twenty of them so far; they must all be
here."
"Can you go down and see what they're doing? The sooner we find out, the
better: Manning's got a pretty ugly bunch of so-called vigilantes on the
way out there.
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