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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Blueblood - -Author: Jim Harmon - -Release Date: March 19, 2016 [EBook #51499] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUEBLOOD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="397" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>BLUEBLOOD</h1> - -<p>By JIM HARMON</p> - -<p>Illustrated by WOOD</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine December 1960.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="600" height="458" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>There were two varieties of aliens—blue<br /> -and bluer—but not as blue as the Earthmen!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Even if I'm only a space pilot, I'm not dumb. I mean I'm not <i>that</i> -dumb. I admit that Dr. Ellik and Dr. Chon outrank me, because that's -the way it's got to be. A pilot is only an expendable part. But I had -been the first one to see the natives on this planet, and I was the -first one to point out that they came in two attractive shades of blue, -light blue and dark blue.</p> - -<p>Four Indigos were carrying an Azure. I called the others over to the -screen.</p> - -<p>"A sedan chair," identified Lee Chon. "Think the light-skinned one is a -kind of a priest?"</p> - -<p>Mike Ellik shook his head. "I doubt it. The chair isn't ornate enough. -I think that's probably the standard method of travel—at least for a -certain social elite."</p> - -<p>"Do you notice anything unusual about those bully boys?"</p> - -<p>"You tell me what you see," Ellik evaded.</p> - -<p>"Three of them are mongoloid idiots," said Chon.</p> - -<p>"I thought so," Ellik said, "but I wasn't quite sure—aliens and all."</p> - -<p>"They're humanoids," Chon said, "and humanoids are my specialty. I -know."</p> - -<p>"The fourth one doesn't look much better."</p> - -<p>"His features are slack and his jaw is loose, all right, but they -aren't <i>made</i> that way. It's an expression he could change. His head -isn't shaped like that."</p> - -<p>"Um. The man in the chair is a striking specimen. No cerebral damage in -him."</p> - -<p>"I don't think the answer is brain damage. If the 'noble' trusts those -four to carry him, their actions and reflexes must be pretty well -coordinated. They can't have anything like palsy or epilepsy."</p> - -<p>"They must breed a special type of slave for the job," Ellik suggested.</p> - -<p>"They aren't slaves, Mike," I told him.</p> - -<p>"No?" Ellik said, like talking to a kid. "And what are they, Mike?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I breathed out hard, a little disgusted that big brains like Ellik and -Chon couldn't see the translucent truth. "They are just four dumb slobs -who can't get a better job, so they are hauling His Highness around -because they have to make a living the hard way."</p> - -<p>"That doesn't quite cover it, Johnny," Chon said. "The carriers are a -completely different race."</p> - -<p>"What's different about them?" I asked. "They've got hands to work -with, eyes to see with, noses to smell with. If you kick one of them, I -bet he'll hurt. It's just their bad luck to be dumb slobs."</p> - -<p>Ellik grunted. "Unfortunately, Johnny, there are subtler differences. -The darker aliens, the indigo-colored ones, seem to be definitely down -further on the scale of local evolution. They must be an inferior race -to the lighter, azure species."</p> - -<p>Chon had been looking at us and listening to everything. Finally he -said, "You can't be sure of that, Mike. You haven't seen all of the -Indigos. Some of them may not be as far down as the common carriers."</p> - -<p>Ellik sighed. "Explorers have to make snap decisions on insufficient -data. We don't have time to see the whole damned planet before we write -up a report."</p> - -<p>"Yes, explorers have to make snap decisions," Chon repeated to himself. -"Are you going to take a look at those buildings, see if it's a -village?"</p> - -<p>"I thought I'd see if our blueblood friend out there wants to show it -to me," said Mike Ellik.</p> - -<p>"He won't," I said.</p> - -<p>They both looked at me.</p> - -<p>"You don't have any chair and nobody to carry you," I went on. "He'll -think you're just a slob."</p> - -<p>"Jonathan," Ellik said, "you show occasional flashes of genius."</p> - -<p>I smiled and shrugged it off. "I know I'm not nearly as smart as you -boys. But that doesn't mean I can't think <i>at all</i>."</p> - -<p>Ellik clapped me on the shoulder. "Of course it doesn't."</p> - -<p>But his grip was too strong.</p> - -<p>"Johnny," Ellik said gravely, "do you think <i>you</i> could carry me?"</p> - -<p>"Wait a minute. You want me to act like one of those slobs? That's -asking a lot."</p> - -<p>"But could you?"</p> - -<p>"Not all the way to those buildings. What was the gravity reading, Lee?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Chon closed his eyes a second. "Point nine seven three."</p> - -<p>"There!" I said. "I couldn't tote you three or four miles piggy-back."</p> - -<p>"Look," Chon said, "we can strip down a magnetic flyer and you can ride -the seat, Mike. Johnny can pretend to carry you, like on a platter. -It'll impress the yokels with the strength of our flunkies."</p> - -<p>"<i>Mike</i> could carry <i>me</i>," I pointed out.</p> - -<p>Chon laid a delicate hand on my back. "But, buddy, Mike outranks you."</p> - -<p>I shook my head. "Not that way, he doesn't."</p> - -<p>"We may be going to a lot of trouble for nothing," Mike said. "That -gang may jump us as soon as we decant and try to have us for dinner."</p> - -<p>"There's always that risk," Chon agreed solemnly, "but naturally I will -remain on duty at the controls of the stun cannon."</p> - -<p>"Securely inside," Ellik added.</p> - -<p>"Always on duty," Chon said.</p> - -<p>"Always inside," Ellik said.</p> - -<p>"It's in the records, Ellik. I took the last one." Lee said it a little -too sharp and it cut the kidding.</p> - -<p>"Go soak your soft head in brine," Ellik said, disgruntled.</p> - -<p>"Wait a minute," Chon called.</p> - -<p>Ellik turned back. "Yeah?"</p> - -<p>"Don't forget to take your communicator with you." Chon's voice was -choked. "You may get out of line of sight if you go off with that -troupe."</p> - -<p>"I know this business," Ellik said, turning away.</p> - -<p>"Mike, I'm sorry if I offended you. Shake, huh?"</p> - -<p>Ellik smiled sourly. "Forget it."</p> - -<p>"Come on, shake."</p> - -<p>"Okay, we're buddies. Do I actually have to pump your clammy paw?"</p> - -<p>"Please!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, for Pete's sake!" Ellik turned around and kissed Chon on the -forehead.</p> - -<p>Ellik was just sore, of course. But the manual warns against that sort -of horseplay when you've been out a long time.</p> - -<p>"Satisfied now?" Ellik asked.</p> - -<p>"No." Chon's voice was strained tight. "It should have been me to kiss -you." Chon turned to me. "Luck out there, Johnny."</p> - -<p>I grabbed his hand and levered it fast, before he could decide I needed -kissing. "Sure thing, Lee. Thanks."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The buildings weren't much to see, but they were a step above primitive -huts. They were adobe, or maybe plastic. The aliens understood the -stress principles of the dome, Ellik said, because all the buildings -had curved roofs. Unbaked pottery was what they looked like to me, -and they looked as if they would be brittle as coffee-colored chalk. -Actually, their ceramic surfaces were at least as hard as steel.</p> - -<p>The Azure had welcomed Ellik with an outstretched hand. Mike wasn't one -to jump to conclusions, so he just held out his own hand. The native -grabbed and let it go after pulling it some.</p> - -<p>The alien saw me apparently carrying Ellik on a seat cushion with one -hand, and he kicked me in the leg. To test my muscles, I guess. I -managed to keep from yelling or jumping. The Azure looked impressed and -the Indigos did a bad job of hiding a lot of envy and hate.</p> - -<p>As the Indigos toted their man along on the litter and I guided Ellik's -seat cushion along the channel of magnetic feedback, the two riders -began talking. Ellik's translator collar broke the language barrier, -of course. It was a two-way communicator on a direct hook-up to our -cybernetic calculator on the ship. The brain analyzed the phonetic -structure of the alien language under various systems of logic or -anti-logic and fed the translation into Ellik's ear. Then it went -through its memory banks and played back the right sounds to translate -Ellik's talk into the alien language. I understand things like that. -I'm a pretty good mechanic.</p> - -<p>I didn't have my translator turned on, but it seemed to me that somehow -I could understand what the plug-uglies, the Indigos, were saying.</p> - -<p>Ellik told me that it was because all their speech was based on the -one universal humanoid sound, "mama." Everything good in the way of -nouns and verbs (there were no other particles of speech) was some -inflection of "m-m" and everything bad was "uh-m-m."</p> - -<p>Ellik was pretty "uh-m-m."</p> - -<p>I was <i>plenty</i> "uh-m-m." I threatened their jobs, they thought.</p> - -<p>They were a real miserable bunch of slobs, those Indigos.</p> - -<p>We passed through the wide places between the houses—I wouldn't call -them streets—and saw a lot of Indigos crouched in doorways, watching -us, and Azures being toted around.</p> - -<p>The clothing they wore was also pretty universal for sentient bipeds—a -tunic or sarong, kind of. For the Azures, it was smooth and colorful; -and for the Indigos, a loincloth of some rough, dun-colored stuff.</p> - -<p>Ellik chinned off his translator switch and leaned down toward my ear. -"They are two distinct races, Johnny. Notice that <i>all</i> the Indigos -are menials. There does not appear to be anything to correspond to a -freedman or even a higher-ranked house servant. The Azures treat the -Indigos only as animals."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Slobs," I said. "Poor dumb slobs."</p> - -<p>The nuclear flash washed over us, peppering us with a few excess -roentgens.</p> - -<p>We couldn't look at the spaceship going up, but we knew it was going. -It was making a dawn.</p> - -<p>The aliens were all frightened. They fell on the ground and started -praying to the ship, all of them, the Azures and the Indigos.</p> - -<p>"What's wrong with that crazy Chinaman?" Ellik yelped.</p> - -<p>"Lee knows what he's doing," I said.</p> - -<p>Ellik unsnapped his communicator from his belt. "Johnny says you know -what you're doing, Chon. <i>Do you?</i>"</p> - -<p>"I know." Chon's voice sounded right beside us, perfectly natural. Belt -communicators work just as well as those consoles. People only buy -consoles for prestige.</p> - -<p>"Well?" Ellik demanded. "What <i>are</i> you doing, Lee?"</p> - -<p>I thought maybe something had gone wrong with the communicator.</p> - -<p>Chon's voice finally reached us.</p> - -<p>"I'm leaving you and Johnny on this planet, Mike," he said.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>An Indigo brought us in our morning supply of fruit.</p> - -<p>Ellik kicked the Indigo. "It's overripe, blockhead. <i>Amum, amum.</i>"</p> - -<p>The Indigo backed out, bowing, eyes very round.</p> - -<p>Ellik felt me looking at him.</p> - -<p>"Well, I don't <i>like</i> kicking the oaf, but that's all he's been -conditioned to understand as a sign of disapproval."</p> - -<p>"Sure," I said.</p> - -<p>Ellik passed through the scimitar of gray shadow into the sunlight that -washed lines and years out of his face. He braced a hand against the -doorframe and craned his head back. It stopped and steadied.</p> - -<p>"He's still there," Ellik said. "Sometimes I wish his orbit would decay -enough to burn him up in this damned sour air." He coughed into his -fist.</p> - -<p>"He could probably correct," I suggested.</p> - -<p>Ellik sneered. "He hasn't got the brains."</p> - -<p>"Pretty hard for one man to manage a takeoff. He was lucky to make it -into orbit."</p> - -<p>"I just wish he would come down. Somehow, someway, I'd get to him, no -matter where he went on this planet."</p> - -<p>"I suppose that's why he stays up."</p> - -<p>Ellik slammed his fist into his palm. "I'm going to call him again. He -can't get away without us. If he fouled up a takeoff that badly, he's -not going to try to solo into hyperspace."</p> - -<p>"I don't think anyone would solo into hyperspace. I don't think he -would be able to come back."</p> - -<p>"Oh, what do you know about it?" Ellik said shortly. "He's just -building up his courage to try the big jump. He's yellow, sure, but -sooner or later he'll get desperate enough, or scared enough, to -actually go. Then we'll be stranded for fair. This planet may not be -colonized for centuries!"</p> - -<p>"Probably never," I said. "Not after Lee's reports."</p> - -<p>"You think he would falsify reports?" Ellik asked, blinking at me.</p> - -<p>"I suppose he'll have to."</p> - -<p>Ellik held his head with his hands. "Of course, of course. There's no -limit to the depths to which he would plummet." He ran over to the -corner and snatched a communicator off the pile of our gear. "I'm going -to call him and tell him what I think of him and his wild obsession."</p> - -<p>I didn't remind Ellik that he had been telling Chon just that at least -once a day for a month. I knew his nerves got tighter and tighter and -cussing out Chon helped release them and make him feel better.</p> - -<p>"Come down, Lee!" Ellik called. "The three of us can make the jump -together. You're martyring yourself for a crazy reason!"</p> - -<p>"We've talked this over before," Chon answered. "This is the last time -I'm going to respond to your call. I've made it clear to you that I -think knowledge of this world will cause great suffering, a lot of -death, among the majority of Earth's people."</p> - -<p>"You're talking prejudice, Lee! <i>Your</i> prejudice. People aren't like -that any more."</p> - -<p>"We haven't gone <i>that</i> far, Mike. The bigots, the hatemongers, the -pettiness and xenophobia lurking in everybody haven't been asleep -that long. Just look at it from <i>my</i> side, Mike. What will the white -people of Earth think about the Orientals, Negroes and Indians of -Earth when they find out the dark-skinned humanoids of another -planet are—measurably, unquestionably, vastly—<i>inferior</i> to the -light-skinned race of the same world? I ask you, Mike!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mike Ellik said, "It's an inept analogy, Lee, and you know it."</p> - -<p>"But most people reason by analogy," said Lee Chon. "No, Mike. I have -to leave you and Johnny to prevent a recurrence of racial hatred, -intolerance and all the ugly consequences on both sides. This is the -last time I'll answer you, Mike. I'm getting lonesome. In a few years, -I'll get hungry for human companionship. I don't want to be tempted -down. Good-by, Johnny. So long, Mike."</p> - -<p>Ellik screamed. "Wait! Answer one more call, Lee. It's the least you -can do for me. I don't know when I'll make it. It may be in a few weeks -or a few years. It won't be just argument, Lee. I'll have something -you'll <i>want</i> to tell Earth about this place and these people."</p> - -<p>"I'm still here. Tell it to me now," Chon's voice said.</p> - -<p>"No. I want to get proof. Let me rig up some kind of video circuit for -you. I can use parts out of our tape camera and the translators. I want -to get it all across to you."</p> - -<p>I could hear Chon breathing. "Very well. I'll answer your next call."</p> - -<p>"Lee," I called out, "Mike and me will be expecting you to answer."</p> - -<p>Chon laughed. "I'm not going anywhere, Johnny. Only around this world -every couple of hours."</p> - -<p>"You couldn't make the jump through hyperspace without us, Lee," Ellik -said.</p> - -<p>"That's right, Mike. I'm—I'm sorry to quarantine you two down there."</p> - -<p>"<i>Quarantine!</i>" Ellik stormed. "<i>We're</i> not sick, Lee. <i>You</i> are the -sick one!"</p> - -<p>There wasn't any sound, not even of breathing.</p> - -<p>"You have an idea to change Lee's mind, Mike?" I asked.</p> - -<p>He cupped his hand on the back of my neck. "Affirmative, Jonathan. A -pretty damned good one, too."</p> - -<p>Ellik stood staring out the door, gnawing on one of his knuckles, -letting the sun turn the front of him into gold, so he looked like half -a statue, and half a man.</p> - -<p>"I suppose it had to come out in him sooner or later," he said.</p> - -<p>"What, Mike?"</p> - -<p>"What could we expect? It's the basic quality of treachery in the -Oriental mind."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When the shadows were at their longest and the alien sun was down the -closest to the horizon without actually going under, Ellik marched up -the path shoving a new Indigo. The Azures supplied Mike with all the -flunkies he wanted to gather food and the like for him, as his natural -right. But I thought we had enough of them hanging around our quarters. -I couldn't imagine what he would want with another one.</p> - -<p>The alien hovered at the door. Ellik kicked him in the calf to make him -understand he was to go inside.</p> - -<p>"Look at him, Johnny," Ellik said, pushing the fellow forward. "Not a -mongoloid, would you say?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>The alien looked stupid—blue and stupid. His face was hanging there, -but it wasn't pushed out of shape any more than the faces of the -Azures. The Indigo blinked back at me. What he also looked was not -friendly.</p> - -<p>Ellik took the Indigo's cheeks in his hand and angled the face toward -the light. "He's a half-breed, Johnny, or otherwise the gene was -recessive. He wasn't damaged before birth, only after—when he started -to breathe."</p> - -<p>"What do you mean, Mike?"</p> - -<p>"You ever hear of cyanosis, Johnny?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"Well, these creatures have something like it. The Indigos don't get -enough oxygen in their blood cells. It makes them sluggish; it turns -them blue like the pictures of 'blue babies' in the old books."</p> - -<p>"I never saw a picture like that in an old book," I said.</p> - -<p>"Did you ever <i>see</i> a book? Sorry, Johnny. Just kidding." Ellik -rubbed his hands together. "Well! I theorized that there is no basic -difference in the Azures and the Indigos except improper aeration of -their blood. So, you see, an Indigo is only a <i>sick</i> Azure, and I am -going to make this Indigo <i>well</i>."</p> - -<p>"How can you do that?"</p> - -<p>"It's simple," Mike said irritably. "The Indigos must have a -malformation of the heart causing an abnormal communication between -the venous and arterial side of the circulation system. A little -surgery and I adjust a valve in the heart. No more communication. -Proper aeration. Enough oxygen. The deep blue color goes, leaving only -the lighter blue of the natural pigmentation. The patient feels better, -acts better, thinks better, looks better. In short, he is no longer an -Indigo but an Azure."</p> - -<p>"Is—is this what you're going to show Lee?" I ventured.</p> - -<p>"Of course! It proves the Indigos <i>aren't</i> an inferior race. They are -the same as the Azures except that they are sick. Their being sick -can't reflect unfavourably on any terrestrial colored race. There is no -analogy. But I have to prove it to Chon. We're going to tape the whole -process and feed it to him."</p> - -<p>"I think," I said, "that that might get to him."</p> - -<p>"Sure it will." Ellik's jaw muscles flexed. "I should ruin Lee with -this thing, but I won't. I'm not a vindictive man. Lee and I will -probably be working together for years. But whenever he gets out of -line—has some stubborn idea about doing something his way—don't think -I won't remind him of this!"</p> - -<p>Suddenly, he was smiling again. He turned to the gawking Indigo. He -pointed two fingers at him.</p> - -<p>"<i>Mmr?</i>" Ellik asked.</p> - -<p>The alien tapped himself on his chest cavity twice. "<i>Mhaw</i>," he gave -his name.</p> - -<p>"<i>Mhaw M'i uh M'i m M'm'-uh?</i>" Ellik asked him, without even using the -translators.</p> - -<p>"<i>M-m-M-m-M</i>," the alien went, slapping himself on the chest with his -opened palms.</p> - -<p>Ellik turned to me, grinning. "I asked him if he wanted to stop being -an Indigo and become an Azure. He thinks I can do anything and he's all -for it."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After we fed Mhaw a dose of null-shock from our packs, Doc Ellik -started to slice him open with a ceramic knife he had borrowed from the -Azures.</p> - -<p>But Ellik had forgotten that the alien might get frightened seeing -himself cut open, even if he couldn't feel any pain. It had never -happened to him before.</p> - -<p>The alien lumbered to his feet, his chest hanging open, showing his -heart beating like some animal caught inside a blueberry pudding.</p> - -<p>I drove a right cross into his jaw, and felt the jar all the way up to -my shoulder.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He melted back down onto the pallet.</p> - -<p>"Good work, Johnny," Ellik said, stooping and starting his work.</p> - -<p>Right away, Mhaw started to lose that Indigo color and get real -light—lighter than the Azures, in fact. None of the blue of the race -was actually in the pigmentation, Mike found out. Even the Azures -suffered some degree of improper aeration of the blood.</p> - -<p>"You going to call Lee Chon now?" I asked Mike. "You going to show him -the tape we had running during the operation and all?"</p> - -<p>"Not quite yet, Johnny," he said. "First I want to educate Mhaw a bit, -up to the Azure level or better. That should convince Lee."</p> - -<p>Mhaw learned fast, probably faster than the Azures, even. Almost the -first thing he wanted was for us to stop calling him Mhaw and start -using an Azure name, Aedo.</p> - -<p>Once a day, Ellik left our hut to take some exercise—a walk along -the alien esplanade, he called it. I used to stay with the doctored -alien, now Aedo, but we finally learned we could trust him to follow -our orders—which were to stay inside, away from the others, since we -didn't know how they would take him. So I got to walking along with -Ellik.</p> - -<p>As dusk lengthened, we could see the spark that was our ship in its -orbit along the retreating horizon.</p> - -<p>Ellik twisted back his head and the side of his mouth. "Look at him up -there—<i>look!</i>"</p> - -<p>The spark burned brighter and danced in another direction.</p> - -<p>"He's gone! He left us!" Ellik said.</p> - -<p>"It's okay. He's still there. Just corrected the orbit a little, I -guess."</p> - -<p>"No, no, no," Ellik said. "He started to make another try. But he got -afraid to try to go into hyperspace alone."</p> - -<p>"He was just correcting for orbital decay."</p> - -<p>"You don't understand, Johnny. He's a coward. That makes him dangerous. -He's getting desperate. That desperation will burst the dam of his own -weakness and wash away our hope, <i>our lives</i>."</p> - -<p>His voice hushed. He stood staring starkly ahead, his palms -outstretched at his sides.</p> - -<p>"Maybe he isn't <i>that</i> cowardly," I said hopefully.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Finished," Ellik announced. He meant he had finished editing the tape -showing the operation on the alien and his recovery from his blue -disease, from being an Indigo to better than an Azure.</p> - -<p>"The transmitter is finished too," I said.</p> - -<p>Ellik had suggested a way of switching the tape camera to a video -converter for one of the audio communicators, and I had been able to -do it easy. It took parts from both our communicators and translators -too.</p> - -<p>Ellik fitted the coiled snake of tape into place. "This will be a great -day for your people, Aedo. After our friend from heaven lands, we will -be able to teach you a way to cure all of your sick, to make all the -Indigos like you."</p> - -<p>"Like me? Make like me?" Aedo said in the pidgin terrestrial that Mike -Ellik had taught him.</p> - -<p>"Yes. We'll show them how we cured you and how all can be cured."</p> - -<p>"You make show fellow like me? Make tell make that fellow like fellow -like me?"</p> - -<p>"Everything's ready, Mike," I called.</p> - -<p>"That's right, Aedo," Mike said. "You'll show your people the way to -equality."</p> - -<p>"Make all fellow like this fellow?" Aedo asked.</p> - -<p>"Shall I call in Lee?" I asked Mike.</p> - -<p>"Yes, that's right, Aedo. Just right."</p> - -<p>"No," Aedo said.</p> - -<p>The alien stomped the tape camera and the communicator to bits before I -could get a hammerlock on him.</p> - -<p>Ellik just stared at the complete wreck of our only means of -communication with the spaceship.</p> - -<p>"I be much man now. I much smart. Much smart than Azure hicks and -Indigo slobs. I much smart all. I much man! Not to be all same now. -<i>No.</i>" The snarl hung on in Aedo's throat.</p> - -<p>Ellik lifted his head and sort of smiled. But not quite.</p> - -<p>"Well," he said slowly and sadly, "what could you expect in the way of -gratitude from a dirty alien?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Azures did accept Aedo all right. They seem to think he must have -come from some other tribe. They don't associate him with the Indigo -that disappeared. No Indigo ever became an Azure before.</p> - -<p>Of course, Azures sometimes become Indigos, we found out.</p> - -<p>It seems there's a virus of what Ellik called pseudo-cyanosis in the -air. The Azures have become a pretty resistant breed to it, while the -Indigos are all easy victims. But once in a while an Azure will come -down with it and turn Indigo.</p> - -<p>Mike Ellik caught it too.</p> - -<p>It happened pretty fast. By the time we realized what it was, he was -already too stupid to finish the operation he started on himself. I had -to sew him up, not very neatly.</p> - -<p>Ellik is treated pretty much like the rest of the Indigos. So am I. He -takes it all pretty calm. He can still talk a little Earth. Whenever -anybody kicks him, Ellik just mutters something about, "What can fellow -expect bunch lousy creeps like those fellow?"</p> - -<p>I guess I'll get it too. I think I am getting it.</p> - -<p>It won't be so bad for me. Just like maybe going around drunk all the -time, not being able to think or coordinate very well.</p> - -<p>It will be kind of bad being a member of an inferior race, but the -thing I'll hate about it the most isn't that, or even leaving old Lee -up there, circling around and waiting for our call forever.</p> - -<p>No, the thing I hate is having it happen <i>now</i>, just when I'm beginning -to <i>learn</i> something.</p> - -<p>I'm not dead sure I know just exactly what I learned, but I think maybe -I do:</p> - -<p>You get just what you damned well expected all along from a bunch of -blue-blooded mongrels!</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blueblood, by Jim Harmon - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUEBLOOD *** - -***** This file should be named 51499-h.htm or 51499-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/4/9/51499/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Blueblood - -Author: Jim Harmon - -Release Date: March 19, 2016 [EBook #51499] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUEBLOOD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - BLUEBLOOD - - By JIM HARMON - - Illustrated by WOOD - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine December 1960. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - There were two varieties of aliens--blue - and bluer--but not as blue as the Earthmen! - - -Even if I'm only a space pilot, I'm not dumb. I mean I'm not _that_ -dumb. I admit that Dr. Ellik and Dr. Chon outrank me, because that's -the way it's got to be. A pilot is only an expendable part. But I had -been the first one to see the natives on this planet, and I was the -first one to point out that they came in two attractive shades of blue, -light blue and dark blue. - -Four Indigos were carrying an Azure. I called the others over to the -screen. - -"A sedan chair," identified Lee Chon. "Think the light-skinned one is a -kind of a priest?" - -Mike Ellik shook his head. "I doubt it. The chair isn't ornate enough. -I think that's probably the standard method of travel--at least for a -certain social elite." - -"Do you notice anything unusual about those bully boys?" - -"You tell me what you see," Ellik evaded. - -"Three of them are mongoloid idiots," said Chon. - -"I thought so," Ellik said, "but I wasn't quite sure--aliens and all." - -"They're humanoids," Chon said, "and humanoids are my specialty. I -know." - -"The fourth one doesn't look much better." - -"His features are slack and his jaw is loose, all right, but they -aren't _made_ that way. It's an expression he could change. His head -isn't shaped like that." - -"Um. The man in the chair is a striking specimen. No cerebral damage in -him." - -"I don't think the answer is brain damage. If the 'noble' trusts those -four to carry him, their actions and reflexes must be pretty well -coordinated. They can't have anything like palsy or epilepsy." - -"They must breed a special type of slave for the job," Ellik suggested. - -"They aren't slaves, Mike," I told him. - -"No?" Ellik said, like talking to a kid. "And what are they, Mike?" - - * * * * * - -I breathed out hard, a little disgusted that big brains like Ellik and -Chon couldn't see the translucent truth. "They are just four dumb slobs -who can't get a better job, so they are hauling His Highness around -because they have to make a living the hard way." - -"That doesn't quite cover it, Johnny," Chon said. "The carriers are a -completely different race." - -"What's different about them?" I asked. "They've got hands to work -with, eyes to see with, noses to smell with. If you kick one of them, I -bet he'll hurt. It's just their bad luck to be dumb slobs." - -Ellik grunted. "Unfortunately, Johnny, there are subtler differences. -The darker aliens, the indigo-colored ones, seem to be definitely down -further on the scale of local evolution. They must be an inferior race -to the lighter, azure species." - -Chon had been looking at us and listening to everything. Finally he -said, "You can't be sure of that, Mike. You haven't seen all of the -Indigos. Some of them may not be as far down as the common carriers." - -Ellik sighed. "Explorers have to make snap decisions on insufficient -data. We don't have time to see the whole damned planet before we write -up a report." - -"Yes, explorers have to make snap decisions," Chon repeated to himself. -"Are you going to take a look at those buildings, see if it's a -village?" - -"I thought I'd see if our blueblood friend out there wants to show it -to me," said Mike Ellik. - -"He won't," I said. - -They both looked at me. - -"You don't have any chair and nobody to carry you," I went on. "He'll -think you're just a slob." - -"Jonathan," Ellik said, "you show occasional flashes of genius." - -I smiled and shrugged it off. "I know I'm not nearly as smart as you -boys. But that doesn't mean I can't think _at all_." - -Ellik clapped me on the shoulder. "Of course it doesn't." - -But his grip was too strong. - -"Johnny," Ellik said gravely, "do you think _you_ could carry me?" - -"Wait a minute. You want me to act like one of those slobs? That's -asking a lot." - -"But could you?" - -"Not all the way to those buildings. What was the gravity reading, Lee?" - - * * * * * - -Chon closed his eyes a second. "Point nine seven three." - -"There!" I said. "I couldn't tote you three or four miles piggy-back." - -"Look," Chon said, "we can strip down a magnetic flyer and you can ride -the seat, Mike. Johnny can pretend to carry you, like on a platter. -It'll impress the yokels with the strength of our flunkies." - -"_Mike_ could carry _me_," I pointed out. - -Chon laid a delicate hand on my back. "But, buddy, Mike outranks you." - -I shook my head. "Not that way, he doesn't." - -"We may be going to a lot of trouble for nothing," Mike said. "That -gang may jump us as soon as we decant and try to have us for dinner." - -"There's always that risk," Chon agreed solemnly, "but naturally I will -remain on duty at the controls of the stun cannon." - -"Securely inside," Ellik added. - -"Always on duty," Chon said. - -"Always inside," Ellik said. - -"It's in the records, Ellik. I took the last one." Lee said it a little -too sharp and it cut the kidding. - -"Go soak your soft head in brine," Ellik said, disgruntled. - -"Wait a minute," Chon called. - -Ellik turned back. "Yeah?" - -"Don't forget to take your communicator with you." Chon's voice was -choked. "You may get out of line of sight if you go off with that -troupe." - -"I know this business," Ellik said, turning away. - -"Mike, I'm sorry if I offended you. Shake, huh?" - -Ellik smiled sourly. "Forget it." - -"Come on, shake." - -"Okay, we're buddies. Do I actually have to pump your clammy paw?" - -"Please!" - -"Oh, for Pete's sake!" Ellik turned around and kissed Chon on the -forehead. - -Ellik was just sore, of course. But the manual warns against that sort -of horseplay when you've been out a long time. - -"Satisfied now?" Ellik asked. - -"No." Chon's voice was strained tight. "It should have been me to kiss -you." Chon turned to me. "Luck out there, Johnny." - -I grabbed his hand and levered it fast, before he could decide I needed -kissing. "Sure thing, Lee. Thanks." - - * * * * * - -The buildings weren't much to see, but they were a step above primitive -huts. They were adobe, or maybe plastic. The aliens understood the -stress principles of the dome, Ellik said, because all the buildings -had curved roofs. Unbaked pottery was what they looked like to me, -and they looked as if they would be brittle as coffee-colored chalk. -Actually, their ceramic surfaces were at least as hard as steel. - -The Azure had welcomed Ellik with an outstretched hand. Mike wasn't one -to jump to conclusions, so he just held out his own hand. The native -grabbed and let it go after pulling it some. - -The alien saw me apparently carrying Ellik on a seat cushion with one -hand, and he kicked me in the leg. To test my muscles, I guess. I -managed to keep from yelling or jumping. The Azure looked impressed and -the Indigos did a bad job of hiding a lot of envy and hate. - -As the Indigos toted their man along on the litter and I guided Ellik's -seat cushion along the channel of magnetic feedback, the two riders -began talking. Ellik's translator collar broke the language barrier, -of course. It was a two-way communicator on a direct hook-up to our -cybernetic calculator on the ship. The brain analyzed the phonetic -structure of the alien language under various systems of logic or -anti-logic and fed the translation into Ellik's ear. Then it went -through its memory banks and played back the right sounds to translate -Ellik's talk into the alien language. I understand things like that. -I'm a pretty good mechanic. - -I didn't have my translator turned on, but it seemed to me that somehow -I could understand what the plug-uglies, the Indigos, were saying. - -Ellik told me that it was because all their speech was based on the -one universal humanoid sound, "mama." Everything good in the way of -nouns and verbs (there were no other particles of speech) was some -inflection of "m-m" and everything bad was "uh-m-m." - -Ellik was pretty "uh-m-m." - -I was _plenty_ "uh-m-m." I threatened their jobs, they thought. - -They were a real miserable bunch of slobs, those Indigos. - -We passed through the wide places between the houses--I wouldn't call -them streets--and saw a lot of Indigos crouched in doorways, watching -us, and Azures being toted around. - -The clothing they wore was also pretty universal for sentient bipeds--a -tunic or sarong, kind of. For the Azures, it was smooth and colorful; -and for the Indigos, a loincloth of some rough, dun-colored stuff. - -Ellik chinned off his translator switch and leaned down toward my ear. -"They are two distinct races, Johnny. Notice that _all_ the Indigos -are menials. There does not appear to be anything to correspond to a -freedman or even a higher-ranked house servant. The Azures treat the -Indigos only as animals." - -"Slobs," I said. "Poor dumb slobs." - -The nuclear flash washed over us, peppering us with a few excess -roentgens. - -We couldn't look at the spaceship going up, but we knew it was going. -It was making a dawn. - -The aliens were all frightened. They fell on the ground and started -praying to the ship, all of them, the Azures and the Indigos. - -"What's wrong with that crazy Chinaman?" Ellik yelped. - -"Lee knows what he's doing," I said. - -Ellik unsnapped his communicator from his belt. "Johnny says you know -what you're doing, Chon. _Do you?_" - -"I know." Chon's voice sounded right beside us, perfectly natural. Belt -communicators work just as well as those consoles. People only buy -consoles for prestige. - -"Well?" Ellik demanded. "What _are_ you doing, Lee?" - -I thought maybe something had gone wrong with the communicator. - -Chon's voice finally reached us. - -"I'm leaving you and Johnny on this planet, Mike," he said. - - * * * * * - -An Indigo brought us in our morning supply of fruit. - -Ellik kicked the Indigo. "It's overripe, blockhead. _Amum, amum._" - -The Indigo backed out, bowing, eyes very round. - -Ellik felt me looking at him. - -"Well, I don't _like_ kicking the oaf, but that's all he's been -conditioned to understand as a sign of disapproval." - -"Sure," I said. - -Ellik passed through the scimitar of gray shadow into the sunlight that -washed lines and years out of his face. He braced a hand against the -doorframe and craned his head back. It stopped and steadied. - -"He's still there," Ellik said. "Sometimes I wish his orbit would decay -enough to burn him up in this damned sour air." He coughed into his -fist. - -"He could probably correct," I suggested. - -Ellik sneered. "He hasn't got the brains." - -"Pretty hard for one man to manage a takeoff. He was lucky to make it -into orbit." - -"I just wish he would come down. Somehow, someway, I'd get to him, no -matter where he went on this planet." - -"I suppose that's why he stays up." - -Ellik slammed his fist into his palm. "I'm going to call him again. He -can't get away without us. If he fouled up a takeoff that badly, he's -not going to try to solo into hyperspace." - -"I don't think anyone would solo into hyperspace. I don't think he -would be able to come back." - -"Oh, what do you know about it?" Ellik said shortly. "He's just -building up his courage to try the big jump. He's yellow, sure, but -sooner or later he'll get desperate enough, or scared enough, to -actually go. Then we'll be stranded for fair. This planet may not be -colonized for centuries!" - -"Probably never," I said. "Not after Lee's reports." - -"You think he would falsify reports?" Ellik asked, blinking at me. - -"I suppose he'll have to." - -Ellik held his head with his hands. "Of course, of course. There's no -limit to the depths to which he would plummet." He ran over to the -corner and snatched a communicator off the pile of our gear. "I'm going -to call him and tell him what I think of him and his wild obsession." - -I didn't remind Ellik that he had been telling Chon just that at least -once a day for a month. I knew his nerves got tighter and tighter and -cussing out Chon helped release them and make him feel better. - -"Come down, Lee!" Ellik called. "The three of us can make the jump -together. You're martyring yourself for a crazy reason!" - -"We've talked this over before," Chon answered. "This is the last time -I'm going to respond to your call. I've made it clear to you that I -think knowledge of this world will cause great suffering, a lot of -death, among the majority of Earth's people." - -"You're talking prejudice, Lee! _Your_ prejudice. People aren't like -that any more." - -"We haven't gone _that_ far, Mike. The bigots, the hatemongers, the -pettiness and xenophobia lurking in everybody haven't been asleep -that long. Just look at it from _my_ side, Mike. What will the white -people of Earth think about the Orientals, Negroes and Indians of -Earth when they find out the dark-skinned humanoids of another -planet are--measurably, unquestionably, vastly--_inferior_ to the -light-skinned race of the same world? I ask you, Mike!" - - * * * * * - -Mike Ellik said, "It's an inept analogy, Lee, and you know it." - -"But most people reason by analogy," said Lee Chon. "No, Mike. I have -to leave you and Johnny to prevent a recurrence of racial hatred, -intolerance and all the ugly consequences on both sides. This is the -last time I'll answer you, Mike. I'm getting lonesome. In a few years, -I'll get hungry for human companionship. I don't want to be tempted -down. Good-by, Johnny. So long, Mike." - -Ellik screamed. "Wait! Answer one more call, Lee. It's the least you -can do for me. I don't know when I'll make it. It may be in a few weeks -or a few years. It won't be just argument, Lee. I'll have something -you'll _want_ to tell Earth about this place and these people." - -"I'm still here. Tell it to me now," Chon's voice said. - -"No. I want to get proof. Let me rig up some kind of video circuit for -you. I can use parts out of our tape camera and the translators. I want -to get it all across to you." - -I could hear Chon breathing. "Very well. I'll answer your next call." - -"Lee," I called out, "Mike and me will be expecting you to answer." - -Chon laughed. "I'm not going anywhere, Johnny. Only around this world -every couple of hours." - -"You couldn't make the jump through hyperspace without us, Lee," Ellik -said. - -"That's right, Mike. I'm--I'm sorry to quarantine you two down there." - -"_Quarantine!_" Ellik stormed. "_We're_ not sick, Lee. _You_ are the -sick one!" - -There wasn't any sound, not even of breathing. - -"You have an idea to change Lee's mind, Mike?" I asked. - -He cupped his hand on the back of my neck. "Affirmative, Jonathan. A -pretty damned good one, too." - -Ellik stood staring out the door, gnawing on one of his knuckles, -letting the sun turn the front of him into gold, so he looked like half -a statue, and half a man. - -"I suppose it had to come out in him sooner or later," he said. - -"What, Mike?" - -"What could we expect? It's the basic quality of treachery in the -Oriental mind." - - * * * * * - -When the shadows were at their longest and the alien sun was down the -closest to the horizon without actually going under, Ellik marched up -the path shoving a new Indigo. The Azures supplied Mike with all the -flunkies he wanted to gather food and the like for him, as his natural -right. But I thought we had enough of them hanging around our quarters. -I couldn't imagine what he would want with another one. - -The alien hovered at the door. Ellik kicked him in the calf to make him -understand he was to go inside. - -"Look at him, Johnny," Ellik said, pushing the fellow forward. "Not a -mongoloid, would you say?" - -"No." - -The alien looked stupid--blue and stupid. His face was hanging there, -but it wasn't pushed out of shape any more than the faces of the -Azures. The Indigo blinked back at me. What he also looked was not -friendly. - -Ellik took the Indigo's cheeks in his hand and angled the face toward -the light. "He's a half-breed, Johnny, or otherwise the gene was -recessive. He wasn't damaged before birth, only after--when he started -to breathe." - -"What do you mean, Mike?" - -"You ever hear of cyanosis, Johnny?" - -"No." - -"Well, these creatures have something like it. The Indigos don't get -enough oxygen in their blood cells. It makes them sluggish; it turns -them blue like the pictures of 'blue babies' in the old books." - -"I never saw a picture like that in an old book," I said. - -"Did you ever _see_ a book? Sorry, Johnny. Just kidding." Ellik -rubbed his hands together. "Well! I theorized that there is no basic -difference in the Azures and the Indigos except improper aeration of -their blood. So, you see, an Indigo is only a _sick_ Azure, and I am -going to make this Indigo _well_." - -"How can you do that?" - -"It's simple," Mike said irritably. "The Indigos must have a -malformation of the heart causing an abnormal communication between -the venous and arterial side of the circulation system. A little -surgery and I adjust a valve in the heart. No more communication. -Proper aeration. Enough oxygen. The deep blue color goes, leaving only -the lighter blue of the natural pigmentation. The patient feels better, -acts better, thinks better, looks better. In short, he is no longer an -Indigo but an Azure." - -"Is--is this what you're going to show Lee?" I ventured. - -"Of course! It proves the Indigos _aren't_ an inferior race. They are -the same as the Azures except that they are sick. Their being sick -can't reflect unfavourably on any terrestrial colored race. There is no -analogy. But I have to prove it to Chon. We're going to tape the whole -process and feed it to him." - -"I think," I said, "that that might get to him." - -"Sure it will." Ellik's jaw muscles flexed. "I should ruin Lee with -this thing, but I won't. I'm not a vindictive man. Lee and I will -probably be working together for years. But whenever he gets out of -line--has some stubborn idea about doing something his way--don't think -I won't remind him of this!" - -Suddenly, he was smiling again. He turned to the gawking Indigo. He -pointed two fingers at him. - -"_Mmr?_" Ellik asked. - -The alien tapped himself on his chest cavity twice. "_Mhaw_," he gave -his name. - -"_Mhaw M'i uh M'i m M'm'-uh?_" Ellik asked him, without even using the -translators. - -"_M-m-M-m-M_," the alien went, slapping himself on the chest with his -opened palms. - -Ellik turned to me, grinning. "I asked him if he wanted to stop being -an Indigo and become an Azure. He thinks I can do anything and he's all -for it." - - * * * * * - -After we fed Mhaw a dose of null-shock from our packs, Doc Ellik -started to slice him open with a ceramic knife he had borrowed from the -Azures. - -But Ellik had forgotten that the alien might get frightened seeing -himself cut open, even if he couldn't feel any pain. It had never -happened to him before. - -The alien lumbered to his feet, his chest hanging open, showing his -heart beating like some animal caught inside a blueberry pudding. - -I drove a right cross into his jaw, and felt the jar all the way up to -my shoulder. - -He melted back down onto the pallet. - -"Good work, Johnny," Ellik said, stooping and starting his work. - -Right away, Mhaw started to lose that Indigo color and get real -light--lighter than the Azures, in fact. None of the blue of the race -was actually in the pigmentation, Mike found out. Even the Azures -suffered some degree of improper aeration of the blood. - -"You going to call Lee Chon now?" I asked Mike. "You going to show him -the tape we had running during the operation and all?" - -"Not quite yet, Johnny," he said. "First I want to educate Mhaw a bit, -up to the Azure level or better. That should convince Lee." - -Mhaw learned fast, probably faster than the Azures, even. Almost the -first thing he wanted was for us to stop calling him Mhaw and start -using an Azure name, Aedo. - -Once a day, Ellik left our hut to take some exercise--a walk along -the alien esplanade, he called it. I used to stay with the doctored -alien, now Aedo, but we finally learned we could trust him to follow -our orders--which were to stay inside, away from the others, since we -didn't know how they would take him. So I got to walking along with -Ellik. - -As dusk lengthened, we could see the spark that was our ship in its -orbit along the retreating horizon. - -Ellik twisted back his head and the side of his mouth. "Look at him up -there--_look!_" - -The spark burned brighter and danced in another direction. - -"He's gone! He left us!" Ellik said. - -"It's okay. He's still there. Just corrected the orbit a little, I -guess." - -"No, no, no," Ellik said. "He started to make another try. But he got -afraid to try to go into hyperspace alone." - -"He was just correcting for orbital decay." - -"You don't understand, Johnny. He's a coward. That makes him dangerous. -He's getting desperate. That desperation will burst the dam of his own -weakness and wash away our hope, _our lives_." - -His voice hushed. He stood staring starkly ahead, his palms -outstretched at his sides. - -"Maybe he isn't _that_ cowardly," I said hopefully. - - * * * * * - -"Finished," Ellik announced. He meant he had finished editing the tape -showing the operation on the alien and his recovery from his blue -disease, from being an Indigo to better than an Azure. - -"The transmitter is finished too," I said. - -Ellik had suggested a way of switching the tape camera to a video -converter for one of the audio communicators, and I had been able to -do it easy. It took parts from both our communicators and translators -too. - -Ellik fitted the coiled snake of tape into place. "This will be a great -day for your people, Aedo. After our friend from heaven lands, we will -be able to teach you a way to cure all of your sick, to make all the -Indigos like you." - -"Like me? Make like me?" Aedo said in the pidgin terrestrial that Mike -Ellik had taught him. - -"Yes. We'll show them how we cured you and how all can be cured." - -"You make show fellow like me? Make tell make that fellow like fellow -like me?" - -"Everything's ready, Mike," I called. - -"That's right, Aedo," Mike said. "You'll show your people the way to -equality." - -"Make all fellow like this fellow?" Aedo asked. - -"Shall I call in Lee?" I asked Mike. - -"Yes, that's right, Aedo. Just right." - -"No," Aedo said. - -The alien stomped the tape camera and the communicator to bits before I -could get a hammerlock on him. - -Ellik just stared at the complete wreck of our only means of -communication with the spaceship. - -"I be much man now. I much smart. Much smart than Azure hicks and -Indigo slobs. I much smart all. I much man! Not to be all same now. -_No._" The snarl hung on in Aedo's throat. - -Ellik lifted his head and sort of smiled. But not quite. - -"Well," he said slowly and sadly, "what could you expect in the way of -gratitude from a dirty alien?" - - * * * * * - -The Azures did accept Aedo all right. They seem to think he must have -come from some other tribe. They don't associate him with the Indigo -that disappeared. No Indigo ever became an Azure before. - -Of course, Azures sometimes become Indigos, we found out. - -It seems there's a virus of what Ellik called pseudo-cyanosis in the -air. The Azures have become a pretty resistant breed to it, while the -Indigos are all easy victims. But once in a while an Azure will come -down with it and turn Indigo. - -Mike Ellik caught it too. - -It happened pretty fast. By the time we realized what it was, he was -already too stupid to finish the operation he started on himself. I had -to sew him up, not very neatly. - -Ellik is treated pretty much like the rest of the Indigos. So am I. He -takes it all pretty calm. He can still talk a little Earth. Whenever -anybody kicks him, Ellik just mutters something about, "What can fellow -expect bunch lousy creeps like those fellow?" - -I guess I'll get it too. I think I am getting it. - -It won't be so bad for me. Just like maybe going around drunk all the -time, not being able to think or coordinate very well. - -It will be kind of bad being a member of an inferior race, but the -thing I'll hate about it the most isn't that, or even leaving old Lee -up there, circling around and waiting for our call forever. - -No, the thing I hate is having it happen _now_, just when I'm beginning -to _learn_ something. - -I'm not dead sure I know just exactly what I learned, but I think maybe -I do: - -You get just what you damned well expected all along from a bunch of -blue-blooded mongrels! - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blueblood, by Jim Harmon - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUEBLOOD *** - -***** This file should be named 51499.txt or 51499.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/4/9/51499/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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