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. A reference time tick was available from our rescue. The
number of seconds it took us all to get aboard and get out of there was
reconstructed through careful reenactment-by all of us who were involved in it
with your part played by a skilled actor. This was compared with Gay's own
memory of how long she was there, and the two were reconciled. Then a Burroughs
space-time capsule was moved to the resultant coordinates plus four seconds, and
a heat bomb was released. Not atomic but hot, star hot-some of those bugs are
hard to kill. Obviously the hotel had to be damaged, with a high probability-no,
a certainty-of loss of life. The threat to Luna City was cauterized but the
price was high. Tanstaafl." Ezra looked grim.
"Your son was saved?"
"I think so. However, my son's welfare did not figure into this decision,
and my opinion was not sought. This was a Time Headquarters policy decision. THQ
rescues individuals only when those individuals are indispensable to an
operation. Richard, as I understand it-mind you, I'm a recruit private on sick
leave; I'm not privy to high policy decisions-as I understand it, permitting
Luna City to suffer a killing epidemic at that time would have interfered with
THQ's plans for something else. Perhaps this matter that Mistress
Gwendolyn-Hazel-
hinted at. I don't know."
"It was and I do know and on Tertius you don't call me 'Mistress' unless
you mean it, Ezra, but thank you anyhow
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