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J. Rogers - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: The Pure Observers - -Author: B. J. Rogers - -Release Date: October 27, 2019 [EBook #60582] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PURE OBSERVERS *** - - - - -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="349" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE PURE OBSERVERS</h1> - -<h2>BY B. J. ROGERS</h2> - -<p class="ph1"><i>The history of space-flight begins before<br /> -man. While our planet still lay wrapped in<br /> -its dream of isolation, other intelligences<br /> -watched from above—minds pure, undying,<br /> -noble—and pathetically vulnerable....</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1958.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"<i>Oh, he is dead!" my mind cried out.</i></p> - -<p>Novna, my dear, I am writing this as a release for my conscience. -Those things which trouble me are not such as one exchanges with vigil -companions, or indeed with anyone not bound by ties like ours.</p> - -<p>If I were at home with you I would exchange with your soul in a moment -the feeling of my own, but distance permits no such consolation and it -is not suitable for me to exchange so familiarly with my colleagues.</p> - -<p>I find myself questioning the value of our customary refusal to -communicate thoughts of a delicate and sensitive nature. The Earth -people, who speak their thoughts, perhaps are less primitive than -we like to imagine. They seem to have no sense of the danger of -overwhelming the soul of another with unwanted confidences. The purely -vocal nature of their communication does not admit an excessive degree -of emotion to their relationships. They do not have to erect any -artificial barriers between each other, as we must who exchange on a -mental level.</p> - -<p>These doubts of mine never could have arisen if we men of Hainos had -not presumed to observe the alien ways of those creatures on the third -Earth, so like ourselves and yet so remote, though we have hovered -above them, listening and watching, for twelve of their generations.</p> - -<p>This vigil, though it is to last but one journey around the sun, has -seemed longer and less fruitful than all the others. I think I shall -not come again, but leave such work to those who can remain efficient -and disinterested Observers, unmoved by doubt and anxiety. Novna, you -must begin to think what we two shall do with the rest of our eternity, -for now that I have spent some small portion of mine in fifty vigils, I -find they have become distasteful. We might go to the Palace of Art and -study to be poet-priests. My last vigil has convinced me that I am more -fitted for that life than this.</p> - -<p>When our mission left Hainos for the third Earth, there was aboard our -ship the poet-priest Gven. You must remember the many nights we sat -beneath the rocks by the ocean, listening as his soul gave ours his -songs. Innocent they were, and filled with talk of purity and light, -though Gven is as old as the rest of us, even if he is as different -from you and me as the Earth child is from its parents.</p> - -<p>You have never seen him, I think. He is smaller than I, slight of -build and tender-faced. How out of place he looked among the ship's -sturdy men of science, with their ages of discipline and austerity -written indelibly into their features. They did not want him. They told -the commissioner that they did not want him.</p> - -<p>"Let him stay at home," they said, "and sing his songs to those who -wish to listen."</p> - -<p>But the commissioner himself, and, I suspect, the commissioner's wife, -was as fond as any of Gven and his songs, so he said Gven was to come -if he liked.</p> - -<p>Poor Gven tried hard enough to make us like him. He offered us the only -gift he had, that of his songs, but no one cared to hear them except -me, and I was ashamed to say so. In the end he was reduced to sitting -for hours, looking out into the night through which the ship bore us, -saying nothing to anyone, for fear of our scorn. He would have liked -us to tell him about the Earth people, for his studies at the Palace -fitted him sadly for a scientific expedition.</p> - -<p>Of the Earth people, however, we hesitated to speak freely, even among -ourselves, for all of us feel strongly about them, in one way or -another. Our exchanges on the matter have always been burdened with -emotion; and we find we cannot share easily our thoughts about Earth -people, unless we banter lightly and say little of what we really feel.</p> - -<p>When our long-ship drew near the third Earth, we were transferred into -the round-ship in which we were to carry on our observations. I could -see Gven was limp with excitement, but as always, I would not exchange -with him for fear of the others, not even to drain off that excess of -feeling which was to prove so dangerous to him.</p> - -<p>Perhaps he thought it would be different, once we had established -ourselves in our designated area of observation. Then we might warm -toward him, giving him the comforts of our experience. If such were his -expectations, he was disappointed. Whatever he gathered from us was -purely accidental, information that we exchanged among ourselves as we -worked. Only in this way did he learn of those few bonds we had forged -with the Earth people.</p> - -<p>It is our custom, as you know, for each man to select one of the Earth -people as his subject. This is not part of our work, it is only a -device to drive away the tedium that descends upon men far from home -and bound to exacting work in a confined place. We begin to feel quite -passionately concerned with our subjects, and occasionally find it -difficult to return to our primary concerns.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="168" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>For some time I had been spending my free hours in the world of a -gentle old merchant named Jacobs. I lived his life with him briefly, -seeing his wife and children as he saw them, going with him to his -store. His memories were good ones, filled with hard work and simple -pleasures. One day, when I had left the computing tables to prepare -for dinner, I sought the mind of Jacobs. He was crossing the street and -as he turned his head, he saw the shining lights of an automobile just -before it struck him. I withdrew from his mind in a shower of pain and -darkness.</p> - -<p>"Oh, he is dead," my mind cried out to my vigil companions before -I could smother the shock and emotion in it. They looked up at me, -questioning. Then I exchanged with them more coolly, "My man Jacobs has -been killed crossing the street."</p> - -<p>Keven, the fuel technician, reached my mind first. "A pity, I lost a -subject myself that way not long ago. It is a bad death for them, poor -things. They might build overpasses, mightn't they? A pity."</p> - -<p>It has never failed to unsettle me, the way my companions have come -to accept the idea of death so easily. To me it is always a horror, -unnatural and alien. You cannot quite see how it is, Novna, for you -have never been in the mind of one who dies.</p> - -<p>I withdrew for a little while to mourn my man Jacobs, for my sorrow was -not to be shared with the others. It was while I sat thinking of the -dead Jacobs that Gven approached hesitantly and sat near me.</p> - -<p>"Is it possible," he asked, "that one can read the soul of an Earth -man? Could I? Or perhaps that would not be permitted to me?"</p> - -<p>His eagerness made me ashamed of the silence I had maintained between -us. "It is certainly possible for you to try, though it cannot always -be done. You need ask no one for permission."</p> - -<p>The delight in his eyes made me forget Jacobs a little. "I may try -anyone at all?"</p> - -<p>"I advise you to search about a little. Don't seize on the first one -you contact as a subject. You have less time than the rest of us for -this sort of thing."</p> - -<p>Gven thanked me shyly and went away. Later I saw him sitting at the -open panels, looking down at the cloud-topped mountains and sandy -valleys over which we circled. His face was still and pale as he -concentrated.</p> - -<p>The next day at dinner, Gven sat playing with his food, looking up -at the rest of us frequently, as if his fear of our coldness were -contending with his wish to open his mind to us. I was not the only -one to notice his excitement, but the rest sat looking at their -plates stonily. They liked Gven even less than they had at first, and -preferred to ignore his presence altogether. At last I lifted my head -defiantly and my thought streamed across the table into the mind of -Gven with such energy and violence that the others raised their eyes -from their food in quick surprise.</p> - -<p>"It must be that you have found a subject. I should like to hear about -it."</p> - -<p>At once Gven let his thoughts explode in undisciplined profusion. The -men drew back a little, shocked by the unfamiliar impact of another's -passion on their minds.</p> - -<p>"The very first mind I sought was that of a girl who calls herself -Maria Dolores. Often her mind turns in upon itself and she reflects -like this, 'Maria Dolores, you have behaved badly to your papa today. -Now you must go and ask him to forgive you and give him a kiss.' In -this way she scolds herself for small misdemeanors. Her world is -composed of happy, innocent trivialities, though as her purity touches -on them and causes them to glow briefly before they are left behind, it -seems that there are no more divine and lovely things in existence than -those in the world of my Maria Dolores."</p> - -<p>Gven blushed and paused for a moment, then rushed on. "I sense that -her father and mother have barricaded her from everyone else. They are -strict with Maria Dolores and sometimes she wishes she could go out to -dances as the other girls do. But she is not sad for long, and goes -to gather flowers for the dinner table. She sets them in long silver -dishes, that reflect the pink and red glow of the sunset slanting -through the window. This pleases Maria Dolores and she stands watching -for a long time."</p> - -<p>Gven would have said more, but all at once Corven, the cultural -researcher, interrupted, looking at me. "Noven, what have you brought -upon us by your curiosity? We are being buried in an avalanche of -poetic fancies."</p> - -<p>After this, Gven sat silent, his face burning, and the rest of us began -to talk of the relation between the sites of mines and the locations of -proving grounds.</p> - -<p>For many days, I watched Gven covertly. He no longer seemed to care -about our rebuffs, nor did he show any desire to ask us questions. He -only sat by the panels, his expression withdrawn and intent, while the -rest of us hustled busily and a little self-consciously around him. -I came to notice a certain perplexity in his face after a time, and -felt that I should ask if he needed any assistance. But I was awkward -and unsure of myself, so I only watched him and said nothing. At last -he came to me, having built up a powerful reserve of feeling that -overflowed with the more violence for having been repressed so long.</p> - -<p>"There is something that is to happen in the life of my Maria Dolores," -Gven began directly.</p> - -<p>Unaccountably, I tensed and tried to suppress the warmth I felt toward -him. "Well, what is it then?" I answered.</p> - -<p>He seemed not to notice the strain I was under. "They have told her she -is to be married to a young man whom they have chosen for her. She is -unhappy, but cannot tell them. Now they are making many preparations. -Maria Dolores spends her time with her mother, sewing dresses and -packing them away. Then her mother speaks to her of things that -frighten her and me, things that seem to happen when men and women are -alone at night. She does not understand and lies awake when her mother -has gone, afraid and wondering. We are uneasy, Maria Dolores and I."</p> - -<p>Here, Novna, I must attempt to explain the marriage of Earth people. -While with us marriage is the spiritualized union of masculine and -feminine natures in one soul, it is to them a more concrete thing. -Their junction is not only one of minds, but one of bodies as well.</p> - -<p>The union seems not to be unpleasant for those who take part in it, but -for us, who so jealously guard our bodies from another's touch, the -marriage of Earth people is difficult to contemplate without revulsion.</p> - -<p>I was rescued from having to answer Gven by the laughter of Corven, who -had overheard the last of the poet's words. "Well then, poet, if she is -unhappy, you must take her away, mustn't you? That's what you want, it -seems, to take her away to Hainos and make her your Gvna."</p> - -<p>Gven stood up and glared angrily at Corven. "Would it be so bad a thing -to carry back one person of Earth? Why shouldn't we?" he flung at the -other man.</p> - -<p>Corven turned away in disgust. "You know we have no authority to -intervene in their affairs. This is what comes of letting a poet-priest -meddle in the concerns of science."</p> - -<p>A sullenness came over Gven's face, and he withdrew from us again, -turning back to the panels. I knew he was with Maria Dolores. Though I -was uneasy over his ignorance, I could not help feeling relieved that I -had not been forced to enlighten him.</p> - -<p>My anxiety proved to be well-founded. It was only a few weeks later -that we reaped the results of our long-cultivated conspiracy of -silence against the poet-priest. We were deeply engrossed in our work -at the computing tables when our nerves were shattered by a cry of -anguish from the mind of Gven. In a moment we were standing around -him, avoiding each other's eyes and scarcely daring to look at the man -shuddering before us, his face in his hands.</p> - -<p>"It is done." Gven cast his anger at us like a stone. "It is as though -she had been killed. Why couldn't you tell me? You, Noven, I asked you. -Why couldn't you have spared me this?"</p> - -<p>The men looked uneasily at me and back at Gven. Shaken, they drifted -away, back to their work, still ashamed to meet each other's eyes. Gven -sat there, grinding his fist into his palm, staring straight ahead.</p> - -<p>He has been gone for some time now. At his request, a long-ship stopped -for him on its homeward cruise. I have not tried to reach another -subject, nor have any of the others. At least, if they have, they do -not speak of it. We are reluctant to attempt any communion with these -creatures whose alien nature has been so strikingly demonstrated to -us. The game of Observation itself has become less a game, and we go -about our work with a vague sense of unrest, as though the descent of -catastrophe upon us were imminent.</p> - -<p>Gven gave us one last gift before he left. He sang us a song that made -us want to bend our heads to the ground in shame. If his songs are -bitter now, and if there is no innocence in them, one needs not look -far to find the reason.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pure Observers, by B. J. 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J. Rogers - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: The Pure Observers - -Author: B. J. Rogers - -Release Date: October 27, 2019 [EBook #60582] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PURE OBSERVERS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE PURE OBSERVERS - - BY B. J. ROGERS - - _The history of space-flight begins before - man. While our planet still lay wrapped in - its dream of isolation, other intelligences - watched from above--minds pure, undying, - noble--and pathetically vulnerable...._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1958. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -"_Oh, he is dead!" my mind cried out._ - -Novna, my dear, I am writing this as a release for my conscience. -Those things which trouble me are not such as one exchanges with vigil -companions, or indeed with anyone not bound by ties like ours. - -If I were at home with you I would exchange with your soul in a moment -the feeling of my own, but distance permits no such consolation and it -is not suitable for me to exchange so familiarly with my colleagues. - -I find myself questioning the value of our customary refusal to -communicate thoughts of a delicate and sensitive nature. The Earth -people, who speak their thoughts, perhaps are less primitive than -we like to imagine. They seem to have no sense of the danger of -overwhelming the soul of another with unwanted confidences. The purely -vocal nature of their communication does not admit an excessive degree -of emotion to their relationships. They do not have to erect any -artificial barriers between each other, as we must who exchange on a -mental level. - -These doubts of mine never could have arisen if we men of Hainos had -not presumed to observe the alien ways of those creatures on the third -Earth, so like ourselves and yet so remote, though we have hovered -above them, listening and watching, for twelve of their generations. - -This vigil, though it is to last but one journey around the sun, has -seemed longer and less fruitful than all the others. I think I shall -not come again, but leave such work to those who can remain efficient -and disinterested Observers, unmoved by doubt and anxiety. Novna, you -must begin to think what we two shall do with the rest of our eternity, -for now that I have spent some small portion of mine in fifty vigils, I -find they have become distasteful. We might go to the Palace of Art and -study to be poet-priests. My last vigil has convinced me that I am more -fitted for that life than this. - -When our mission left Hainos for the third Earth, there was aboard our -ship the poet-priest Gven. You must remember the many nights we sat -beneath the rocks by the ocean, listening as his soul gave ours his -songs. Innocent they were, and filled with talk of purity and light, -though Gven is as old as the rest of us, even if he is as different -from you and me as the Earth child is from its parents. - -You have never seen him, I think. He is smaller than I, slight of -build and tender-faced. How out of place he looked among the ship's -sturdy men of science, with their ages of discipline and austerity -written indelibly into their features. They did not want him. They told -the commissioner that they did not want him. - -"Let him stay at home," they said, "and sing his songs to those who -wish to listen." - -But the commissioner himself, and, I suspect, the commissioner's wife, -was as fond as any of Gven and his songs, so he said Gven was to come -if he liked. - -Poor Gven tried hard enough to make us like him. He offered us the only -gift he had, that of his songs, but no one cared to hear them except -me, and I was ashamed to say so. In the end he was reduced to sitting -for hours, looking out into the night through which the ship bore us, -saying nothing to anyone, for fear of our scorn. He would have liked -us to tell him about the Earth people, for his studies at the Palace -fitted him sadly for a scientific expedition. - -Of the Earth people, however, we hesitated to speak freely, even among -ourselves, for all of us feel strongly about them, in one way or -another. Our exchanges on the matter have always been burdened with -emotion; and we find we cannot share easily our thoughts about Earth -people, unless we banter lightly and say little of what we really feel. - -When our long-ship drew near the third Earth, we were transferred into -the round-ship in which we were to carry on our observations. I could -see Gven was limp with excitement, but as always, I would not exchange -with him for fear of the others, not even to drain off that excess of -feeling which was to prove so dangerous to him. - -Perhaps he thought it would be different, once we had established -ourselves in our designated area of observation. Then we might warm -toward him, giving him the comforts of our experience. If such were his -expectations, he was disappointed. Whatever he gathered from us was -purely accidental, information that we exchanged among ourselves as we -worked. Only in this way did he learn of those few bonds we had forged -with the Earth people. - -It is our custom, as you know, for each man to select one of the Earth -people as his subject. This is not part of our work, it is only a -device to drive away the tedium that descends upon men far from home -and bound to exacting work in a confined place. We begin to feel quite -passionately concerned with our subjects, and occasionally find it -difficult to return to our primary concerns. - -For some time I had been spending my free hours in the world of a -gentle old merchant named Jacobs. I lived his life with him briefly, -seeing his wife and children as he saw them, going with him to his -store. His memories were good ones, filled with hard work and simple -pleasures. One day, when I had left the computing tables to prepare -for dinner, I sought the mind of Jacobs. He was crossing the street and -as he turned his head, he saw the shining lights of an automobile just -before it struck him. I withdrew from his mind in a shower of pain and -darkness. - -"Oh, he is dead," my mind cried out to my vigil companions before -I could smother the shock and emotion in it. They looked up at me, -questioning. Then I exchanged with them more coolly, "My man Jacobs has -been killed crossing the street." - -Keven, the fuel technician, reached my mind first. "A pity, I lost a -subject myself that way not long ago. It is a bad death for them, poor -things. They might build overpasses, mightn't they? A pity." - -It has never failed to unsettle me, the way my companions have come -to accept the idea of death so easily. To me it is always a horror, -unnatural and alien. You cannot quite see how it is, Novna, for you -have never been in the mind of one who dies. - -I withdrew for a little while to mourn my man Jacobs, for my sorrow was -not to be shared with the others. It was while I sat thinking of the -dead Jacobs that Gven approached hesitantly and sat near me. - -"Is it possible," he asked, "that one can read the soul of an Earth -man? Could I? Or perhaps that would not be permitted to me?" - -His eagerness made me ashamed of the silence I had maintained between -us. "It is certainly possible for you to try, though it cannot always -be done. You need ask no one for permission." - -The delight in his eyes made me forget Jacobs a little. "I may try -anyone at all?" - -"I advise you to search about a little. Don't seize on the first one -you contact as a subject. You have less time than the rest of us for -this sort of thing." - -Gven thanked me shyly and went away. Later I saw him sitting at the -open panels, looking down at the cloud-topped mountains and sandy -valleys over which we circled. His face was still and pale as he -concentrated. - -The next day at dinner, Gven sat playing with his food, looking up -at the rest of us frequently, as if his fear of our coldness were -contending with his wish to open his mind to us. I was not the only -one to notice his excitement, but the rest sat looking at their -plates stonily. They liked Gven even less than they had at first, and -preferred to ignore his presence altogether. At last I lifted my head -defiantly and my thought streamed across the table into the mind of -Gven with such energy and violence that the others raised their eyes -from their food in quick surprise. - -"It must be that you have found a subject. I should like to hear about -it." - -At once Gven let his thoughts explode in undisciplined profusion. The -men drew back a little, shocked by the unfamiliar impact of another's -passion on their minds. - -"The very first mind I sought was that of a girl who calls herself -Maria Dolores. Often her mind turns in upon itself and she reflects -like this, 'Maria Dolores, you have behaved badly to your papa today. -Now you must go and ask him to forgive you and give him a kiss.' In -this way she scolds herself for small misdemeanors. Her world is -composed of happy, innocent trivialities, though as her purity touches -on them and causes them to glow briefly before they are left behind, it -seems that there are no more divine and lovely things in existence than -those in the world of my Maria Dolores." - -Gven blushed and paused for a moment, then rushed on. "I sense that -her father and mother have barricaded her from everyone else. They are -strict with Maria Dolores and sometimes she wishes she could go out to -dances as the other girls do. But she is not sad for long, and goes -to gather flowers for the dinner table. She sets them in long silver -dishes, that reflect the pink and red glow of the sunset slanting -through the window. This pleases Maria Dolores and she stands watching -for a long time." - -Gven would have said more, but all at once Corven, the cultural -researcher, interrupted, looking at me. "Noven, what have you brought -upon us by your curiosity? We are being buried in an avalanche of -poetic fancies." - -After this, Gven sat silent, his face burning, and the rest of us began -to talk of the relation between the sites of mines and the locations of -proving grounds. - -For many days, I watched Gven covertly. He no longer seemed to care -about our rebuffs, nor did he show any desire to ask us questions. He -only sat by the panels, his expression withdrawn and intent, while the -rest of us hustled busily and a little self-consciously around him. -I came to notice a certain perplexity in his face after a time, and -felt that I should ask if he needed any assistance. But I was awkward -and unsure of myself, so I only watched him and said nothing. At last -he came to me, having built up a powerful reserve of feeling that -overflowed with the more violence for having been repressed so long. - -"There is something that is to happen in the life of my Maria Dolores," -Gven began directly. - -Unaccountably, I tensed and tried to suppress the warmth I felt toward -him. "Well, what is it then?" I answered. - -He seemed not to notice the strain I was under. "They have told her she -is to be married to a young man whom they have chosen for her. She is -unhappy, but cannot tell them. Now they are making many preparations. -Maria Dolores spends her time with her mother, sewing dresses and -packing them away. Then her mother speaks to her of things that -frighten her and me, things that seem to happen when men and women are -alone at night. She does not understand and lies awake when her mother -has gone, afraid and wondering. We are uneasy, Maria Dolores and I." - -Here, Novna, I must attempt to explain the marriage of Earth people. -While with us marriage is the spiritualized union of masculine and -feminine natures in one soul, it is to them a more concrete thing. -Their junction is not only one of minds, but one of bodies as well. - -The union seems not to be unpleasant for those who take part in it, but -for us, who so jealously guard our bodies from another's touch, the -marriage of Earth people is difficult to contemplate without revulsion. - -I was rescued from having to answer Gven by the laughter of Corven, who -had overheard the last of the poet's words. "Well then, poet, if she is -unhappy, you must take her away, mustn't you? That's what you want, it -seems, to take her away to Hainos and make her your Gvna." - -Gven stood up and glared angrily at Corven. "Would it be so bad a thing -to carry back one person of Earth? Why shouldn't we?" he flung at the -other man. - -Corven turned away in disgust. "You know we have no authority to -intervene in their affairs. This is what comes of letting a poet-priest -meddle in the concerns of science." - -A sullenness came over Gven's face, and he withdrew from us again, -turning back to the panels. I knew he was with Maria Dolores. Though I -was uneasy over his ignorance, I could not help feeling relieved that I -had not been forced to enlighten him. - -My anxiety proved to be well-founded. It was only a few weeks later -that we reaped the results of our long-cultivated conspiracy of -silence against the poet-priest. We were deeply engrossed in our work -at the computing tables when our nerves were shattered by a cry of -anguish from the mind of Gven. In a moment we were standing around -him, avoiding each other's eyes and scarcely daring to look at the man -shuddering before us, his face in his hands. - -"It is done." Gven cast his anger at us like a stone. "It is as though -she had been killed. Why couldn't you tell me? You, Noven, I asked you. -Why couldn't you have spared me this?" - -The men looked uneasily at me and back at Gven. Shaken, they drifted -away, back to their work, still ashamed to meet each other's eyes. Gven -sat there, grinding his fist into his palm, staring straight ahead. - -He has been gone for some time now. At his request, a long-ship stopped -for him on its homeward cruise. I have not tried to reach another -subject, nor have any of the others. At least, if they have, they do -not speak of it. We are reluctant to attempt any communion with these -creatures whose alien nature has been so strikingly demonstrated to -us. The game of Observation itself has become less a game, and we go -about our work with a vague sense of unrest, as though the descent of -catastrophe upon us were imminent. - -Gven gave us one last gift before he left. He sang us a song that made -us want to bend our heads to the ground in shame. 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