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Show in an aircar; and traveled almost exclusively in carriages drawn by horses. Even the Exalted Board of Managers took their numberless trips around the Commendiums in the NorthSouth Planetran, avoiding air travel except on the most urgent matters. The good Lady Dr'Anya looked at the middle distance with suddenly widened eyes. Indeed, came they all-the blessed Two Hundred-to this faraway planet of BauerWorlde through insubstantial Space, bereft of the cradling land. Surrounded they were by nothing.:.nothing ! The lady Doctor could feel herself shrink inside, could feel the absolute terror of it, the sensation of spiraling down and down and down into emptiness. Falling.... Her head began to lighten, gooseflesh ran up her arms and down her back, and in the center of her being, a tendril of hot fear began to grow. Well and t r u l y . . . the poor Saint Ida. . .indeed, she m u s t . . . . Her beaker fell with a crash on the flagstones and she started to rise, suffused with dread. . .frank p a n i c . .. Nay! It was not Ida Needlesmith, it was not that woman's terror. . .t'was Janni...even that fair flesh of her's that she loved more than her own! Then Dr'Anya began to scream. She screamed and screamed, and Nell came whirring out of the scullery door behind her, clucking and blinking wildly. 23 |
