he ventilator, commanded it to scramble back out the moment he
He felt the burning sensation along the bird's side, and the agony it suffered. The wing had been almost severed by the shot, and its life was swiftly ebbing.
“Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made-the pattern is beginning to emerge. Someone-or something-is on the way to supreme power over all the planets held by Man. And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the threat-no normal man can hope to penetrate the conspiracy. But-the Corps has a man who isn't normal, a man with a very strange weapon...his mind!”