"
Rynason kicked it across the floor. Manning bent and picked it up,
returned the stunner to its holster and held the disintegrator on him.
"That's better. Now we can avoid arguments--right, Lee? You've always
like peaceful settlements, haven't you?"
Rynason glared at him, but didn't say anything. He walked slowly into
the center of the room, among the Hirlaji. They paid no attention.
"Lee, he's going to kill them!" Mara burst out.
Rynason was standing now next to the interpreter. The handlight which
Manning had set on the floor across the room was trained upwards, and
the interpreter was still in the darkness. He lowered his head as if in
thought and switched on the machine with his foot.
"Is that true, Manning? Are you going to kill them?" His voice was loud
and it echoed from the walls.
"I can't trust them," Manning said, his voice automatically growing
louder in response to Rynason's own. He stepped forward, pushing Mara in
front of him. "They're not human, Lee--you keep forgetting that, for
some reason.
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