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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Get Out of My Body! - -Author: Tom W. Harris - -Release Date: April 27, 2021 [eBook #65176] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GET OUT OF MY BODY! *** - - - - - Consider an alien infiltrating our - world--impossible to catch because - he might inhabit any person--even - you! You'd likely start screaming-- - - GET OUT OF MY BODY! - - By Tom W. Harris - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - February 1958 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -"I have come to discuss a very grave problem," said the -talking-attendant. - -"Then let's get down to details," said Chester Forge. "It's urgent you -said." - -Interviews with Ravians always made Chester nervous. They wouldn't use -the psi-control voice sets, and there was something uncanny in talking -to a human, a talking-attendant, when you knew it wasn't the man -speaking at all, but the alien intelligence he was temporarily host to. - -It was even more unsettling when the Ravian was a high official, -as at present. Their minds were even more coldly intellectual, dry -and logical than the usual Ravian tourist's. And they could make a -lot of trouble. Chester's job as tour-chief here at Knoxville--more -specifically, Port Knoxville, where the ships came in--was to keep the -tourists happy as possible. No, not happy. Happiness is an emotion. -Satisfied maybe. - -"There are scant useful details I can give you," said Monnn, the -Ravian, through the lips of the talking-attendant. "There was a -stowaway on the sightseeing ship that came in this morning--one of our -people. He is a fugitive. He has left the ship and is here on earth -somewhere, perhaps in Knoxville. He must be captured." - -Chester Forge was jolted, but he had found you got on better with -Ravians if you never showed feelings. He made his voice calm. - -"A fugitive, hmmm? What was his crime?" - -"The question is immaterial," said Monnn. "So typical of your people. -But I suppose you will function better if not bothered by curiosity. -Minnn, the stowaway, told a lie." - -"A lie?" - -"The worst of crimes. Minnn was a politician, campaigning for office, -and he lied in making a promise he could not execute." - -By Joe, thought Chester, now I've heard them all. Well, the rule is you -never, never question the tastes of an alien. The Martians have a mad -passion for hop-toads, the Zarlos like to have things hurt them, the -Frin talk all the time and the Rorn don't talk at all, and-- - -"We'll get him for you," said Chester more firmly than he felt. - -"We feel you may fail," said the Ravian. "We ask permission to send our -own searchers, no quota on numbers, open-area travel permission." - -Chester went white. "I'm afraid we can't grant that. I promise we'll -get him for you." - -"Why can you not grant that?" - -"Well--population. There aren't enough volunteers to host any more than -the present quota, and of course you can't get around without hosts." - -"How human," said Monnn through the attendant. "You are afraid of us. -Yet you know we have no desire at all for this planet, and that we know -you know this. - -"Why do you lie? On our planet you would be treated as Minnn will -be--your personality dismembered, the useful parts assigned to another, -the imperfect disposed of." - -"Be that as it may," said Chester, a chill in his spine. "We will find -this fugitive ourselves." - -"Of course. And if you do not, within two of your days, we must come -to search ourselves. One more thing--Minnn may turn killer. And now I -shall retire--manipulating this organism is most fatiguing." - -The talking-attendant stood blank-faced for a moment as the Ravian -withdrew to some nook of his mentality. Then he blinked and peered -around, discovered he was in Forge's office, and saluted. - -"That's okay, John," said Chester. "Thanks. Take him back to his husk." - -The attendant left and Chester picked up his visor, punching the button -for Security Chief.... - - * * * * * - -On Clinch Street, little Sally Odum was walking home from school. She -turned down an alley for a shortcut, and there she saw the toy. It -was a black, fringed globe, a little larger than a grapefruit. "Gee!" -exclaimed Sally, and reached out and grabbed it. - -The globe changed from black to gray, from shiny to dull, and from firm -to flaccid. Sally felt a little tingle in her fingertips, a tiny tug -in her mind. Looking thoughtful, she slipped the limp toy under her -jacket. She trotted home, hid the thing at the bottom of her toy box, -and promptly forgot about ever finding it. - -Minnn, exhausted from the psionic strain of rolling his body through -the thick earth air all the way from the port to the city, and then -directing the feeling and movement of Sally, made one little adjustment -in her memory, then turned off his awareness and rested. In the rich -rush of mental currents he would soon be replenished. In the meantime -he was safe.... - - * * * * * - -The Ravian had given Chester Forge two days to find Minnn. A day had -passed and nothing had happened. He had kept things quiet, up to now. -There was no indication his quiet search would produce anything. It was -time for a different tactic.... - - * * * * * - -Sally Odum's father looked up from the news-sheets that had just come -off the clicker. "Mary, did you see these items about the Ravian loose -in the city?" - -His wife was playing chack with Sally. The child had beaten her four -games running, and Mary was just beginning to wonder if she was mother -to a genius. A mother does not appreciate interruption of such -musings. "Ah--no," she answered absently. "What about um?" - -"Seems this bird--Minnn's his tag--is thought to be hiding out in some -human around town. He forced." - -Mary was more interested. "Isn't forcing against galactic convention?" - -"Darn right. This guy's a fugitive, like I said." - -"I knew they'd get in trouble, letting these foreigners come down." - -"Look, honey. One thing, we need the trade. A Ravian pays four picks of -plainum for a day or two in a human. It's all here in the news-sheet. -A Ravian hasn't got emotions, and when they're in a host they can feel -everything the host feels. Real Kicks. The host gets to spend one pick -himself--a small fortune--he has a shivaree and the Ravian goes for the -ride. And for the host it's all voluntary." - -"What about this Minnn?" - -Sally listened with bright attention, slightly flushed. - -"It says here he could be anywhere, any man, woman or child. Tells how -you can spot 'em and names a reward. Person with old Minnn inside is a -little flushed, feverish, doesn't sleep very well. They...." - -"Say, honey, Sally didn't sleep well last night. Do you think she's all -right?" - -"Any kid has a restless night sometimes, Mary. Lemme finish. The person -is apt to be kind of listless, and might have memory blanks. Oh--and -the Ravian enters a host by some kind of physical contact, and he can -get to another host only by a contact with the first one." - -"Maybe we ought to take Sally to Dr. Price, hon. She just hasn't been -herself lately." - -"Oh well," sighed Odum, and threw down the clicker-story. "Tell you -what. All you do is visor security, tell them you're pretty sure a -person has this Ravian, and the person gets a real good physical--free. -Let's just tell them Sal has the symptoms and get a deal." - -Sally got up listlessly and the screen banged as she wandered out. - -"What symptoms?" asked Mary. - -"You mean you weren't listening?" And Mr. Odum told Mrs. Odum all the -signs the article had listed, while Mrs. Odum gradually paled. - -"But--those are exactly the symptoms she does have," she said when he -finished. Their eyes met and he reached for the visor. - -The security cops arrived. Chester was with them. As they boiled -from their 'copter they nearly knocked over an old gentleman who was -creaking his way delicately along the sidewalk, and one cop stepped on -a small dog, which bit him. - -Two of them stayed with Sally, who stood in the yard with a scared -expression; two others entered the house with Chester. They all came -out of the house and Mary explained to Sally that she was not to be -frightened. Sally was given a nice raincoat with built-in mittens--it -was triple-ply mento-insulation plastic--and everybody bundled into the -'copter. - -Sally liked the ride and the raincoat, but when it was all over she was -sad. Mr. Forge seemed disappointed somehow.... - - * * * * * - -Minnn lay quiet in his new host soaking in data. Perfesser Frye ... -old ... quiet, jogging complex of contentment, and dissatisfaction. -Cheated on price of eggs ... nice house over there, awful the way -they've changed things ... little girl, patted her on the head, might -have had a child like that. Enjoy what you can. Glow-thought connected -with something called beer. - -Minnn was shocked to find that, almost the opposite of Sally, -Perfesser Frye was a complete liar. He was not a professor, and the -knowledge he impressed people with was mostly a collection of long, -mispronounced words and memorized facts of which the Perfesser did -not know the meaning. His landlady believed he was coming into an -immense inheritance based on platinum on Vega, and she allowed him -a familiarity which Minnn found amusing and which included rent -exemption. The man was a collection of lies. Even his rheumatism was -not genuine, but psychosomatic. - -That evening the Perfesser had the unpleasant experience of seeing -his own face on the landlady's show-visor set, with the information -that there was a price on his head. This was the last he remembered -for some time, although to the landlady he appeared to retain full -consciousness. He leaped to his feet most unrheumatically, tied her -up, bashed in the visor, and pattered out into the streets, which were -deserted. - -The Perfesser had good eyes for distance use, Minnn found. He swung -the Perfesser's hook-beaked head about searchingly. At the end of the -street men were coming, in mento-insulation. Minnn swung the lanky -frame about, almost capsizing it, and sprinted long-leggedly in the -opposite direction. - -In a few blocks the heart was pounding and the face was hot and the -lungs could not suck enough oxygen. The Perfesser was not feeling -anything consciously, but his parasympathetic nervous system was giving -Minnn the horrors. - -The cops could not be seen. Minnn withdrew to rest. The Perfesser came -to an abrupt halt, and gazed about him glassily. He remembered the -nightmarish moment watching the visor; now he found himself in the -street panting like a horse and raining sweat. He stood getting his -breath and trying to think, then moved off purposefully.... - - * * * * * - -Chester's eyes felt like they would drop out on his desk at any moment. -He had had no sleep. He was entertaining a plan to visit the Ravians, -in disguise, as a tourist, and make things miserable for _them_, when -two buzzers rang at once. - -He answered his chief's buzzer first. Had Minnn been caught? No? Well, -the governor had called and the heat was on. The chief was forced to -give Forge a choice of producing Minnn in 24 hours or being sent as -supercargo to the Mars-deserts. That was all. - -The second buzzer was Monnn, speaking through "a talking-attendant." - -"Your two days are up this evening," said the Ravian. "Any progress?" - -"We ought to have him any time now." - -"Nonsense. Minnn had been in that young girl--I could tell, when she -was here." - -Forge got little pleasure from his reply. "I know that. We're after the -man Minnn moved to." - -Monnn was unperturbed. "Good. You have about an hour." - -"One thing," said Chester. "You say Minnn might kill. Any special way -he'd go about it?" - -"How should I know?" asked Monnn. "Minnn is an outlaw, under pursuit -and away from his planet. On our planet there are no killings." And he -hung up.... - - * * * * * - -The Perfesser, umbrella under his arm, black serge suit dusty, walked -down a long alley and into Steve's Beer Bar. Beer, he always figured, -was a real help when you were perplexed. - -Minnn witnessed this logic with disgust. The Perfesser's memory-units -showed the beer just made him more perplexed. But Minnn was resting in -witness-state, very tired from making the Perfesser do all that running. - -The Perfesser hooked his umbrella over the bar and was waited upon by -Steve himself. "You look kinda bushed," said Steve respectfully. - -"A man my age must watch himself, Steve. Especially when he is -enervated by the hardihoods of lifetime scholarship." - -"Rough," said Steve admiringly. He didn't know what the language meant -but it sounded gorgeous. - -The Perfesser turned to a pushed-down man beside him at the bar. "You -would hardly believe, friend, what has just happened to me. One moment -I was watching a home-visor-view--and the next I was standing in the -street. I can scarcely credit this phenomenon." - -"Funny things happen," said the pushed-down man. "I drive a laundry -truck, and one stop is out to the national asylum. They got people out -there what don't know where they even came from, too." - -"You sure this really happened, Perfesser?" said Steve. "I mean--you -wouldn't make it up or nothing." The Perfesser had drunk only one "fish -bowl" of beer--it was a little early for his star-spangled lying. - -"I can aver it happened," said the Perfesser stiffly. "A phenomena of -psychic rarity--similar things have occurred to intellectual persons at -various points in history." - -Minnn was not enjoying himself. Humans were fun when they were having -fun, but other moods were unendurable. Coupled with illogic it was -worse. Minnn was considering shifting to the truck driver when the man -suddenly arose. "Well, night, Steve, Perfesser--I gotta get the sheets -a-rolling," said the man, and vanished out the back door. - -It was seconds later that two policemen burst in the front door -and headed straight for the Perfesser. Minnn acted instantly. The -Perfesser's awareness was clamped out and the creaking frame was sent -speeding to the back door. - -Down the alley the laundry truck was starting, and the Perfesser's -voice sailed after it, "Wait, fellow. Hold on!" - -The truck slowed and the wizened face of the driver peered back just in -time to see the police burst into the alley and open fire. The face was -withdrawn instantly and the truck gained speed. - -The Perfesser ran after it, shouting until his breath gave out. There -was junk in the alley and it was crisscrossed by other alleys with -traffic on them and the driver dared not approach top speed. The cops -shot twice again at the Perfesser, who was running like an antelope. - -Minnn felt a crash in the Perfesser's shoulder and the tall body -swayed. A bit of lead had entered the clavicle. Minnn strained and -the ends of the veins constricted, slowing the loss of blood. The -Perfesser's heart and lungs were behaving alarmingly but Minnn kept the -body running. He was gaining on the truck. - -The truck gained speed and so did the Perfesser. Ancient arteries, -brittled with deposits, strained and began to give. The Perfesser's -arm raised as he drew alongside the truck. The umbrella-tip neared the -driver. - - * * * * * - -A bullet grazed the Perfesser's side--Minnn suddenly realized they were -not shooting to kill: and also the shaky frame he had taken would not -be able to run much longer. With a surge of concentration he pushed the -body forward. The umbrella-tip touched the driver, Minnn drove himself -down the metal ferrule, somewhere an artery burst, and the body of the -Perfesser sagged, wobbled, and, still carried forward by momentum, -smashed into a wall and toppled over. It lay there on its back. Being -front-man for a Ravian had been Perfesser Frye's last falsehood. - -The truck got out of the alley, going fast, and kept going fast until -it came to the asylum. The driver did not go to the back door--there -might be people waiting for him. He walked in the front door, up to the -receptionist, and touched her. Then he discovered himself standing -there, and walked embarrassedly out again. - -The receptionist remained at her desk. A visitor was moving toward her; -as he passed, the receptionist touched his hand. - -Down a hallway opening into the reception room came a little group of -men--three attendants from the hospital and the hospital director; a -talking-attendant and Chester Forge, and the truck driver. All were -gloved and clad in mento-insulation but the talking-attendant. - -"I was standing right here," said the driver excitedly. "Right here in -front of this desk." - -The talking-attendant rested his hand on the receptionist's forehead. -"Not there now," he declared. - -"Have any of you seen anyone near this desk?" called the director to -the room at large. A woman pointed to the visitor the receptionist had -touched. "He was!" - -The visitor began to run. - -"We've got to get him before he gets into a patient!" yelled Chester. -"In an unbalanced mind even Monnn can't find him! Get him." - -They went plunging after the visitor. - -Minnn was pleased. He had a head start, and this human had good running -potential. He would have fun. An interne stepped out of a door, the -visitor touched his hand, the interne stepped back through the door, -rapidly. The searchers swirled down the hall and grabbed the visitor -and Monnn made his test. "Not here now," he reported. - -The interne strolled into an elevator, went up a story, walked quietly -down another corridor. Excitement was percolating through the place -almost as though the inmates breathed it. There were many inmates on -this floor; he could force into one almost at leisure. - -Another elevator jarred to a stop, doors opened, and the searchers -bolted out. Chester's face was like a purple plum, his eyes were red -and wild. The long chase was teasingly close to ending, and could be -frustrated forever. - -The interne turned and thumbed his nose at Forge, who gave a bellow -of anger. As the men surged toward him, the attendant sprinted a few -yards, reached out and touched a patient. The halls were full of them; -attracted by the excitement. Unobtrusively the patient touched another, -who in turn touched another, who disappeared in the crowd. - -"Go back to your rooms," shouted the director of the hospital. "You are -impeding a hunt for a fugitive." - -But the patients didn't see any fugitive, and they stayed, and more -kept coming. - -There was a disconcerting blur of thought-emotion in the patient Minnn -was using. The pursuers were the length of the hall away; he caused his -host to turn, shriek a bad word, and thumb her nose at them. - -They came running, impeded by the crowd. The patient turned a corner, -touched another patient, who touched another. - -It was quite an experience, Minnn decided. He had whirled through a -rich kaleidoscope of minds and emotions; in one woman there had been a -fountain of ecstacy he would have to go back and sample sometime. He -had come to the perfect place. Except as he chose to do it, to tease, -these inmates could not reveal him, and no Ravian could detect him. He -could stay here an indefinite length of time--wait them out--then go -back to the toy chest where his husk lay--or trace Sally Odum's memory -for it in case she had moved it--and repossess himself. - -He could learn to live on this planet--perhaps he could even get -governmental sanctuary, though that was not essential. He would not be -lonely. Ravians do not get lonely. They do, however, have a sense of -power. - -But the pursuers were coming down the hall, the Ravian in the -talking-attendant attempting to sort through the twisted minds, the -person from the tourist service almost out of his own mind. And though -Minnn was having sport, he was a little tired. He turned the eyes of -his host toward the group of hunters, and saw that they had stopped -coming and stood talking. He walked his host to a window-bench, sat it -down, turned its mind toward slumber, and relaxed. - - * * * * * - -Chester had to have a plan, and, driven to unwonted efficiency by the -threat of bureaucratic disgrace and exile, his mind began to form one. -The plan was not without its dangers, especially to Chester, but it was -the only plan they had. - -Power was shut off to all elevators, and at the flip of a switch all -the doors on the group's floor were locked. "We've got him penned on -this floor," said Chester. "I only hope he doesn't come across a mouse." - -"He's probably on this floor," corrected Monnn through the -talking-attendant. "And he'll _probably_ stay. Ravians have a slight -psionic control, as you know, and it's barely possible Minnn could -force himself through a door-panel." - -"How about a wall?" - -"I doubt it." - -"What if there was nobody on the other side for him to force into?" - -"He would not last very long ... we would lose him. And that would go -hard for you, Mr. Forge, because we do not want Minnn done away with, -we want him captured." - -"I don't need to be reminded," said Chester, mentally getting a -two-handed hold on the always-be-polite-to-a-tourist rule. "And now -let's smoke him out." - -The director and a helper lingered unobtrusively near a firehose; -the rest of the group strolled on down the hall. Minnn had rested -and was alert again. Through his host-eyes he saw there were many -patients milling about--there were so many ready refuges. It occurred -to him that he had not particularly bedeviled his countryman, and he -caused his host to pick up a vase and hurl it at the head of Monnn's -talking-attendant. - -Almost instantly a blast of chill water struck Minnn's host, knocking -her sprawling. Minnn found her emotions most unpleasant. He took her -mind fully, forcing her up from the floor, and a ram of water pounded -her down again. Somebody was rounding up the other patients, pushing -them out of his reach. People were yelling, running. - -Somebody down the hall aimed a wide-nozzled gun at Minnn's host. There -was also the blat of an explosion and something hit his host in the -chest. "What poor weapons," thought Minnn, and then the thing exploded. -A thick gas swaddled the host-patient, Minnn felt the body sagging. -There was no time for him to weigh all factors for a really logical -decision, and he made a snap-judgment to leave this body before it lost -consciousness and sealed off his contact with his environment. - -A form was stumbling past, and Minnn reached his host's hand up and -touched it. In a flash he had entered. Almost instantaneously he -realized that this time it was different. The nervous system was alive -with wild, determined resistance. - -His host was Chester Forge. - -Chester reeled back from the gas-shrouded, drowsing inmate. The gas -would stay near her, held by the biostatic charge in all its particles. -He had to keep away from it; he needed all his consciousness for his -battle. - -He would never be able to quite describe many of the things he felt -during the struggle he waged within his own organism like a civil war. -Minnn had entered at his right wrist. Although Chester had mentally -braced, the alien had surged up his arm almost instantaneously, nearly -to the shoulder. Chester called on his mind to hold Minnn there. He -worked some part of his mind to hold Minnn there. He worked some part -of his mind like a new muscle--one cannot explain how it is he works a -muscle, he just does it. Simultaneously Chester reeled down the hall -toward where Monnn, in the talking-attendant, stood by an open door. -Monnn and the door were his two aces in the hole. - -His flesh crawled; the alien was digging, seeping, sparking through -him, along his nerves, like a fluid, a worm, a gas, an insidious -writhing electricity. And the alien was winning. Inexorably he drove -along the stubborn channels to the seat of control, the watchroom in -the skull. - -The talking-attendant stood with a rustling, limp black sac -out-held--Minnn's husk, taken from the toy chest of Sally Odum. If -Chester could force the writhing Minnn back down and out of his -fingertips and into the husk.... - -But he couldn't. The sweat rolled down his face as the fight went on -inside him. He had no way of knowing what would happen when Minnn, who -was nearing it, reached his brain. Insanity? Convulsions? Death? At -the very least, Minnn would control him, and also know his thoughts, -his plan, his two aces in the hole. - - * * * * * - -There was a twist and a tingle at the base of his skull--the invader -was entering his brainstalk. It was time to play his first ace. With a -burst of determination to control his reeling motor functions, Chester -reached out his hand and touched the hand of the talking-attendant. -Monnn swished vengefully inside him. - -When they had discussed this the others had been afraid. So had -Chester. Two alien forces, one hostile, both struggling, might rip -and rupture his psychic system like lightning bolts battling inside -a transistor. But Chester Forge was a stubborn man, with perhaps a -bureaucratic stubbornness, certainly a human stubbornness, and he was -committed to an end to be achieved. - -For a few split seconds there was in Chester's nervous system what -might be described as a "hush." He took advantage of it to step through -the open door into a dimly-lighted room. The hospital director, -insulation-swathed, followed with the leather-rustling husk. - -Then Minnn and Monnn locked forces, and Chester reeled with the shock -and swirl of the combat. The two forces mixed, fused, separated, -mingled, yet Chester somehow knew always which was which, got bursts -of the reasoning of each, knew in some indescribable way the alien, -indecipherable natures of each of them. For an instant he panicked. -Something mysterious and terrible as the dark energy of infinity was -pounding and flashing in his merely human synapses and cells, something -he understood yet could not understand at all. - -He felt a draining, and knew Minnn was tapping him for energy. Chester -rallied to help Monnn. He pulled his energy, his thoughts, away from -Minnn, rolling up, balling, clenching his powers, keeping them out of -reach, probing for a chance to strike. Minnn filamented through half -his body; part of the alien was needling and darting into Chester's -mind, burrowing toward knowledge of his plan. Chester buried his plan -in the very center of the ball of thoughts, hiding his last ace. - -He could not keep this up much longer, and he could feel that both -Minnn and Monnn knew this. It was time for the big assault. He sent -flash after flash of willpower crisping through his nerves, and Monnn -interwove himself in these assaults. Minnn was being forced back, and -back, intolerably pressured. - -Minnn hurled his energies at them in a sudden rush, and Chester felt -something in him begin to tear like a piece of silk. - -Concealed from Minnn like the kernel of a nut, Chester cupped the -knowledge, his last ace. He was at the verge of cracking, now was the -time to play it. He edged toward the wall of the room, where a patient -sat darkly on a bench. At the same time both he and Monnn drove forth -their last few ergs of pressure against Minnn. - -Chester felt something raise his arm. His arm moved toward the patient; -his palm touched the man's cheek. There was a sudden cleanness in him, -and Minnn was gone. - -He leaped backward through the door and it swung to and locked. A -peep-panel was opened in it and the black fringed husk hung up before -the opening. Chester touched the talking-attendant so Monnn could pass -over, then leaned weakly against the wall opposite the door. - -"I give him half an hour," he said. "Who's got a drink of water?" - -It turned out that they had waited only twenty-two minutes when the -fringed sac began to take a luster, to puff and to fill. When they were -quite sure Minnn was entirely within it, they wrapped it tightly in -the insulation and took it away. - -"It was a good plan," said Monnn through the talking-attendant as -they drove back toward the town. "We could never have forced him to -leave you to enter his husk--his logic would have driven him to fight -even harder and to stay, with rather unfortunate results to you, Mr. -Forge, but under pressure he would leave to enter another host. And -it was lucky the walls of that room held him--as you said, that was a -gamble we had to take. But I wish you would again describe to me the -phenomenon in that room. It sounds quite strange." - -"It's something that happens to humans," said Chester, "and I knew no -Ravian could put up with it. Illogic disturbs you, and you tour in -human beings only for the sake of one kind of emotion, the pleasant -kind. In that room there was no logic, and the emotions were of a -different kind, a kind you haven't heard of. The humans there were in -what is called a depressive ward. They are illogically unhappy, all the -time." - -"I see," said Monnn through the lips of the attendant. "You have good -logic, Mr. Forge. I have a new respect for human logic. 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Harris</h2> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -February 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" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I have come to discuss a very grave problem," said the -talking-attendant.</p> - -<p>"Then let's get down to details," said Chester Forge. "It's urgent you -said."</p> - -<p>Interviews with Ravians always made Chester nervous. They wouldn't use -the psi-control voice sets, and there was something uncanny in talking -to a human, a talking-attendant, when you knew it wasn't the man -speaking at all, but the alien intelligence he was temporarily host to.</p> - -<p>It was even more unsettling when the Ravian was a high official, -as at present. Their minds were even more coldly intellectual, dry -and logical than the usual Ravian tourist's. And they could make a -lot of trouble. Chester's job as tour-chief here at Knoxville—more -specifically, Port Knoxville, where the ships came in—was to keep the -tourists happy as possible. No, not happy. Happiness is an emotion. -Satisfied maybe.</p> - -<p>"There are scant useful details I can give you," said Monnn, the -Ravian, through the lips of the talking-attendant. "There was a -stowaway on the sightseeing ship that came in this morning—one of our -people. He is a fugitive. He has left the ship and is here on earth -somewhere, perhaps in Knoxville. He must be captured."</p> - -<p>Chester Forge was jolted, but he had found you got on better with -Ravians if you never showed feelings. He made his voice calm.</p> - -<p>"A fugitive, hmmm? What was his crime?"</p> - -<p>"The question is immaterial," said Monnn. "So typical of your people. -But I suppose you will function better if not bothered by curiosity. -Minnn, the stowaway, told a lie."</p> - -<p>"A lie?"</p> - -<p>"The worst of crimes. Minnn was a politician, campaigning for office, -and he lied in making a promise he could not execute."</p> - -<p>By Joe, thought Chester, now I've heard them all. Well, the rule is you -never, never question the tastes of an alien. The Martians have a mad -passion for hop-toads, the Zarlos like to have things hurt them, the -Frin talk all the time and the Rorn don't talk at all, and—</p> - -<p>"We'll get him for you," said Chester more firmly than he felt.</p> - -<p>"We feel you may fail," said the Ravian. "We ask permission to send our -own searchers, no quota on numbers, open-area travel permission."</p> - -<p>Chester went white. "I'm afraid we can't grant that. I promise we'll -get him for you."</p> - -<p>"Why can you not grant that?"</p> - -<p>"Well—population. There aren't enough volunteers to host any more than -the present quota, and of course you can't get around without hosts."</p> - -<p>"How human," said Monnn through the attendant. "You are afraid of us. -Yet you know we have no desire at all for this planet, and that we know -you know this.</p> - -<p>"Why do you lie? On our planet you would be treated as Minnn will -be—your personality dismembered, the useful parts assigned to another, -the imperfect disposed of."</p> - -<p>"Be that as it may," said Chester, a chill in his spine. "We will find -this fugitive ourselves."</p> - -<p>"Of course. And if you do not, within two of your days, we must come -to search ourselves. One more thing—Minnn may turn killer. And now I -shall retire—manipulating this organism is most fatiguing."</p> - -<p>The talking-attendant stood blank-faced for a moment as the Ravian -withdrew to some nook of his mentality. Then he blinked and peered -around, discovered he was in Forge's office, and saluted.</p> - -<p>"That's okay, John," said Chester. "Thanks. Take him back to his husk."</p> - -<p>The attendant left and Chester picked up his visor, punching the button -for Security Chief....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>On Clinch Street, little Sally Odum was walking home from school. She -turned down an alley for a shortcut, and there she saw the toy. It -was a black, fringed globe, a little larger than a grapefruit. "Gee!" -exclaimed Sally, and reached out and grabbed it.</p> - -<p>The globe changed from black to gray, from shiny to dull, and from firm -to flaccid. Sally felt a little tingle in her fingertips, a tiny tug -in her mind. Looking thoughtful, she slipped the limp toy under her -jacket. She trotted home, hid the thing at the bottom of her toy box, -and promptly forgot about ever finding it.</p> - -<p>Minnn, exhausted from the psionic strain of rolling his body through -the thick earth air all the way from the port to the city, and then -directing the feeling and movement of Sally, made one little adjustment -in her memory, then turned off his awareness and rested. In the rich -rush of mental currents he would soon be replenished. In the meantime -he was safe....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Ravian had given Chester Forge two days to find Minnn. A day had -passed and nothing had happened. He had kept things quiet, up to now. -There was no indication his quiet search would produce anything. It was -time for a different tactic....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sally Odum's father looked up from the news-sheets that had just come -off the clicker. "Mary, did you see these items about the Ravian loose -in the city?"</p> - -<p>His wife was playing chack with Sally. The child had beaten her four -games running, and Mary was just beginning to wonder if she was mother -to a genius. A mother does not appreciate interruption of such -musings. "Ah—no," she answered absently. "What about um?"</p> - -<p>"Seems this bird—Minnn's his tag—is thought to be hiding out in some -human around town. He forced."</p> - -<p>Mary was more interested. "Isn't forcing against galactic convention?"</p> - -<p>"Darn right. This guy's a fugitive, like I said."</p> - -<p>"I knew they'd get in trouble, letting these foreigners come down."</p> - -<p>"Look, honey. One thing, we need the trade. A Ravian pays four picks of -plainum for a day or two in a human. It's all here in the news-sheet. -A Ravian hasn't got emotions, and when they're in a host they can feel -everything the host feels. Real Kicks. The host gets to spend one pick -himself—a small fortune—he has a shivaree and the Ravian goes for the -ride. And for the host it's all voluntary."</p> - -<p>"What about this Minnn?"</p> - -<p>Sally listened with bright attention, slightly flushed.</p> - -<p>"It says here he could be anywhere, any man, woman or child. Tells how -you can spot 'em and names a reward. Person with old Minnn inside is a -little flushed, feverish, doesn't sleep very well. They...."</p> - -<p>"Say, honey, Sally didn't sleep well last night. Do you think she's all -right?"</p> - -<p>"Any kid has a restless night sometimes, Mary. Lemme finish. The person -is apt to be kind of listless, and might have memory blanks. Oh—and -the Ravian enters a host by some kind of physical contact, and he can -get to another host only by a contact with the first one."</p> - -<p>"Maybe we ought to take Sally to Dr. Price, hon. She just hasn't been -herself lately."</p> - -<p>"Oh well," sighed Odum, and threw down the clicker-story. "Tell you -what. All you do is visor security, tell them you're pretty sure a -person has this Ravian, and the person gets a real good physical—free. -Let's just tell them Sal has the symptoms and get a deal."</p> - -<p>Sally got up listlessly and the screen banged as she wandered out.</p> - -<p>"What symptoms?" asked Mary.</p> - -<p>"You mean you weren't listening?" And Mr. Odum told Mrs. Odum all the -signs the article had listed, while Mrs. Odum gradually paled.</p> - -<p>"But—those are exactly the symptoms she does have," she said when he -finished. Their eyes met and he reached for the visor.</p> - -<p>The security cops arrived. Chester was with them. As they boiled -from their 'copter they nearly knocked over an old gentleman who was -creaking his way delicately along the sidewalk, and one cop stepped on -a small dog, which bit him.</p> - -<p>Two of them stayed with Sally, who stood in the yard with a scared -expression; two others entered the house with Chester. They all came -out of the house and Mary explained to Sally that she was not to be -frightened. Sally was given a nice raincoat with built-in mittens—it -was triple-ply mento-insulation plastic—and everybody bundled into the -'copter.</p> - -<p>Sally liked the ride and the raincoat, but when it was all over she was -sad. Mr. Forge seemed disappointed somehow....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Minnn lay quiet in his new host soaking in data. Perfesser Frye ... -old ... quiet, jogging complex of contentment, and dissatisfaction. -Cheated on price of eggs ... nice house over there, awful the way -they've changed things ... little girl, patted her on the head, might -have had a child like that. Enjoy what you can. Glow-thought connected -with something called beer.</p> - -<p>Minnn was shocked to find that, almost the opposite of Sally, -Perfesser Frye was a complete liar. He was not a professor, and the -knowledge he impressed people with was mostly a collection of long, -mispronounced words and memorized facts of which the Perfesser did -not know the meaning. His landlady believed he was coming into an -immense inheritance based on platinum on Vega, and she allowed him -a familiarity which Minnn found amusing and which included rent -exemption. The man was a collection of lies. Even his rheumatism was -not genuine, but psychosomatic.</p> - -<p>That evening the Perfesser had the unpleasant experience of seeing -his own face on the landlady's show-visor set, with the information -that there was a price on his head. This was the last he remembered -for some time, although to the landlady he appeared to retain full -consciousness. He leaped to his feet most unrheumatically, tied her -up, bashed in the visor, and pattered out into the streets, which were -deserted.</p> - -<p>The Perfesser had good eyes for distance use, Minnn found. He swung -the Perfesser's hook-beaked head about searchingly. At the end of the -street men were coming, in mento-insulation. Minnn swung the lanky -frame about, almost capsizing it, and sprinted long-leggedly in the -opposite direction.</p> - -<p>In a few blocks the heart was pounding and the face was hot and the -lungs could not suck enough oxygen. The Perfesser was not feeling -anything consciously, but his parasympathetic nervous system was giving -Minnn the horrors.</p> - -<p>The cops could not be seen. Minnn withdrew to rest. The Perfesser came -to an abrupt halt, and gazed about him glassily. He remembered the -nightmarish moment watching the visor; now he found himself in the -street panting like a horse and raining sweat. He stood getting his -breath and trying to think, then moved off purposefully....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Chester's eyes felt like they would drop out on his desk at any moment. -He had had no sleep. He was entertaining a plan to visit the Ravians, -in disguise, as a tourist, and make things miserable for <i>them</i>, when -two buzzers rang at once.</p> - -<p>He answered his chief's buzzer first. Had Minnn been caught? No? Well, -the governor had called and the heat was on. The chief was forced to -give Forge a choice of producing Minnn in 24 hours or being sent as -supercargo to the Mars-deserts. That was all.</p> - -<p>The second buzzer was Monnn, speaking through "a talking-attendant."</p> - -<p>"Your two days are up this evening," said the Ravian. "Any progress?"</p> - -<p>"We ought to have him any time now."</p> - -<p>"Nonsense. Minnn had been in that young girl—I could tell, when she -was here."</p> - -<p>Forge got little pleasure from his reply. "I know that. We're after the -man Minnn moved to."</p> - -<p>Monnn was unperturbed. "Good. You have about an hour."</p> - -<p>"One thing," said Chester. "You say Minnn might kill. Any special way -he'd go about it?"</p> - -<p>"How should I know?" asked Monnn. "Minnn is an outlaw, under pursuit -and away from his planet. On our planet there are no killings." And he -hung up....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Perfesser, umbrella under his arm, black serge suit dusty, walked -down a long alley and into Steve's Beer Bar. Beer, he always figured, -was a real help when you were perplexed.</p> - -<p>Minnn witnessed this logic with disgust. The Perfesser's memory-units -showed the beer just made him more perplexed. But Minnn was resting in -witness-state, very tired from making the Perfesser do all that running.</p> - -<p>The Perfesser hooked his umbrella over the bar and was waited upon by -Steve himself. "You look kinda bushed," said Steve respectfully.</p> - -<p>"A man my age must watch himself, Steve. Especially when he is -enervated by the hardihoods of lifetime scholarship."</p> - -<p>"Rough," said Steve admiringly. He didn't know what the language meant -but it sounded gorgeous.</p> - -<p>The Perfesser turned to a pushed-down man beside him at the bar. "You -would hardly believe, friend, what has just happened to me. One moment -I was watching a home-visor-view—and the next I was standing in the -street. I can scarcely credit this phenomenon."</p> - -<p>"Funny things happen," said the pushed-down man. "I drive a laundry -truck, and one stop is out to the national asylum. They got people out -there what don't know where they even came from, too."</p> - -<p>"You sure this really happened, Perfesser?" said Steve. "I mean—you -wouldn't make it up or nothing." The Perfesser had drunk only one "fish -bowl" of beer—it was a little early for his star-spangled lying.</p> - -<p>"I can aver it happened," said the Perfesser stiffly. "A phenomena of -psychic rarity—similar things have occurred to intellectual persons at -various points in history."</p> - -<p>Minnn was not enjoying himself. Humans were fun when they were having -fun, but other moods were unendurable. Coupled with illogic it was -worse. Minnn was considering shifting to the truck driver when the man -suddenly arose. "Well, night, Steve, Perfesser—I gotta get the sheets -a-rolling," said the man, and vanished out the back door.</p> - -<p>It was seconds later that two policemen burst in the front door -and headed straight for the Perfesser. Minnn acted instantly. The -Perfesser's awareness was clamped out and the creaking frame was sent -speeding to the back door.</p> - -<p>Down the alley the laundry truck was starting, and the Perfesser's -voice sailed after it, "Wait, fellow. Hold on!"</p> - -<p>The truck slowed and the wizened face of the driver peered back just in -time to see the police burst into the alley and open fire. The face was -withdrawn instantly and the truck gained speed.</p> - -<p>The Perfesser ran after it, shouting until his breath gave out. There -was junk in the alley and it was crisscrossed by other alleys with -traffic on them and the driver dared not approach top speed. The cops -shot twice again at the Perfesser, who was running like an antelope.</p> - -<p>Minnn felt a crash in the Perfesser's shoulder and the tall body -swayed. A bit of lead had entered the clavicle. Minnn strained and -the ends of the veins constricted, slowing the loss of blood. The -Perfesser's heart and lungs were behaving alarmingly but Minnn kept the -body running. He was gaining on the truck.</p> - -<p>The truck gained speed and so did the Perfesser. Ancient arteries, -brittled with deposits, strained and began to give. The Perfesser's -arm raised as he drew alongside the truck. The umbrella-tip neared the -driver.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A bullet grazed the Perfesser's side—Minnn suddenly realized they were -not shooting to kill: and also the shaky frame he had taken would not -be able to run much longer. With a surge of concentration he pushed the -body forward. The umbrella-tip touched the driver, Minnn drove himself -down the metal ferrule, somewhere an artery burst, and the body of the -Perfesser sagged, wobbled, and, still carried forward by momentum, -smashed into a wall and toppled over. It lay there on its back. Being -front-man for a Ravian had been Perfesser Frye's last falsehood.</p> - -<p>The truck got out of the alley, going fast, and kept going fast until -it came to the asylum. The driver did not go to the back door—there -might be people waiting for him. He walked in the front door, up to the -receptionist, and touched her. Then he discovered himself standing -there, and walked embarrassedly out again.</p> - -<p>The receptionist remained at her desk. A visitor was moving toward her; -as he passed, the receptionist touched his hand.</p> - -<p>Down a hallway opening into the reception room came a little group of -men—three attendants from the hospital and the hospital director; a -talking-attendant and Chester Forge, and the truck driver. All were -gloved and clad in mento-insulation but the talking-attendant.</p> - -<p>"I was standing right here," said the driver excitedly. "Right here in -front of this desk."</p> - -<p>The talking-attendant rested his hand on the receptionist's forehead. -"Not there now," he declared.</p> - -<p>"Have any of you seen anyone near this desk?" called the director to -the room at large. A woman pointed to the visitor the receptionist had -touched. "He was!"</p> - -<p>The visitor began to run.</p> - -<p>"We've got to get him before he gets into a patient!" yelled Chester. -"In an unbalanced mind even Monnn can't find him! Get him."</p> - -<p>They went plunging after the visitor.</p> - -<p>Minnn was pleased. He had a head start, and this human had good running -potential. He would have fun. An interne stepped out of a door, the -visitor touched his hand, the interne stepped back through the door, -rapidly. The searchers swirled down the hall and grabbed the visitor -and Monnn made his test. "Not here now," he reported.</p> - -<p>The interne strolled into an elevator, went up a story, walked quietly -down another corridor. Excitement was percolating through the place -almost as though the inmates breathed it. There were many inmates on -this floor; he could force into one almost at leisure.</p> - -<p>Another elevator jarred to a stop, doors opened, and the searchers -bolted out. Chester's face was like a purple plum, his eyes were red -and wild. The long chase was teasingly close to ending, and could be -frustrated forever.</p> - -<p>The interne turned and thumbed his nose at Forge, who gave a bellow -of anger. As the men surged toward him, the attendant sprinted a few -yards, reached out and touched a patient. The halls were full of them; -attracted by the excitement. Unobtrusively the patient touched another, -who in turn touched another, who disappeared in the crowd.</p> - -<p>"Go back to your rooms," shouted the director of the hospital. "You are -impeding a hunt for a fugitive."</p> - -<p>But the patients didn't see any fugitive, and they stayed, and more -kept coming.</p> - -<p>There was a disconcerting blur of thought-emotion in the patient Minnn -was using. The pursuers were the length of the hall away; he caused his -host to turn, shriek a bad word, and thumb her nose at them.</p> - -<p>They came running, impeded by the crowd. The patient turned a corner, -touched another patient, who touched another.</p> - -<p>It was quite an experience, Minnn decided. He had whirled through a -rich kaleidoscope of minds and emotions; in one woman there had been a -fountain of ecstacy he would have to go back and sample sometime. He -had come to the perfect place. Except as he chose to do it, to tease, -these inmates could not reveal him, and no Ravian could detect him. He -could stay here an indefinite length of time—wait them out—then go -back to the toy chest where his husk lay—or trace Sally Odum's memory -for it in case she had moved it—and repossess himself.</p> - -<p>He could learn to live on this planet—perhaps he could even get -governmental sanctuary, though that was not essential. He would not be -lonely. Ravians do not get lonely. They do, however, have a sense of -power.</p> - -<p>But the pursuers were coming down the hall, the Ravian in the -talking-attendant attempting to sort through the twisted minds, the -person from the tourist service almost out of his own mind. And though -Minnn was having sport, he was a little tired. He turned the eyes of -his host toward the group of hunters, and saw that they had stopped -coming and stood talking. He walked his host to a window-bench, sat it -down, turned its mind toward slumber, and relaxed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Chester had to have a plan, and, driven to unwonted efficiency by the -threat of bureaucratic disgrace and exile, his mind began to form one. -The plan was not without its dangers, especially to Chester, but it was -the only plan they had.</p> - -<p>Power was shut off to all elevators, and at the flip of a switch all -the doors on the group's floor were locked. "We've got him penned on -this floor," said Chester. "I only hope he doesn't come across a mouse."</p> - -<p>"He's probably on this floor," corrected Monnn through the -talking-attendant. "And he'll <i>probably</i> stay. Ravians have a slight -psionic control, as you know, and it's barely possible Minnn could -force himself through a door-panel."</p> - -<p>"How about a wall?"</p> - -<p>"I doubt it."</p> - -<p>"What if there was nobody on the other side for him to force into?"</p> - -<p>"He would not last very long ... we would lose him. And that would go -hard for you, Mr. Forge, because we do not want Minnn done away with, -we want him captured."</p> - -<p>"I don't need to be reminded," said Chester, mentally getting a -two-handed hold on the always-be-polite-to-a-tourist rule. "And now -let's smoke him out."</p> - -<p>The director and a helper lingered unobtrusively near a firehose; -the rest of the group strolled on down the hall. Minnn had rested -and was alert again. Through his host-eyes he saw there were many -patients milling about—there were so many ready refuges. It occurred -to him that he had not particularly bedeviled his countryman, and he -caused his host to pick up a vase and hurl it at the head of Monnn's -talking-attendant.</p> - -<p>Almost instantly a blast of chill water struck Minnn's host, knocking -her sprawling. Minnn found her emotions most unpleasant. He took her -mind fully, forcing her up from the floor, and a ram of water pounded -her down again. Somebody was rounding up the other patients, pushing -them out of his reach. People were yelling, running.</p> - -<p>Somebody down the hall aimed a wide-nozzled gun at Minnn's host. There -was also the blat of an explosion and something hit his host in the -chest. "What poor weapons," thought Minnn, and then the thing exploded. -A thick gas swaddled the host-patient, Minnn felt the body sagging. -There was no time for him to weigh all factors for a really logical -decision, and he made a snap-judgment to leave this body before it lost -consciousness and sealed off his contact with his environment.</p> - -<p>A form was stumbling past, and Minnn reached his host's hand up and -touched it. In a flash he had entered. Almost instantaneously he -realized that this time it was different. The nervous system was alive -with wild, determined resistance.</p> - -<p>His host was Chester Forge.</p> - -<p>Chester reeled back from the gas-shrouded, drowsing inmate. The gas -would stay near her, held by the biostatic charge in all its particles. -He had to keep away from it; he needed all his consciousness for his -battle.</p> - -<p>He would never be able to quite describe many of the things he felt -during the struggle he waged within his own organism like a civil war. -Minnn had entered at his right wrist. Although Chester had mentally -braced, the alien had surged up his arm almost instantaneously, nearly -to the shoulder. Chester called on his mind to hold Minnn there. He -worked some part of his mind to hold Minnn there. He worked some part -of his mind like a new muscle—one cannot explain how it is he works a -muscle, he just does it. Simultaneously Chester reeled down the hall -toward where Monnn, in the talking-attendant, stood by an open door. -Monnn and the door were his two aces in the hole.</p> - -<p>His flesh crawled; the alien was digging, seeping, sparking through -him, along his nerves, like a fluid, a worm, a gas, an insidious -writhing electricity. And the alien was winning. Inexorably he drove -along the stubborn channels to the seat of control, the watchroom in -the skull.</p> - -<p>The talking-attendant stood with a rustling, limp black sac -out-held—Minnn's husk, taken from the toy chest of Sally Odum. If -Chester could force the writhing Minnn back down and out of his -fingertips and into the husk....</p> - -<p>But he couldn't. The sweat rolled down his face as the fight went on -inside him. He had no way of knowing what would happen when Minnn, who -was nearing it, reached his brain. Insanity? Convulsions? Death? At -the very least, Minnn would control him, and also know his thoughts, -his plan, his two aces in the hole.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There was a twist and a tingle at the base of his skull—the invader -was entering his brainstalk. It was time to play his first ace. With a -burst of determination to control his reeling motor functions, Chester -reached out his hand and touched the hand of the talking-attendant. -Monnn swished vengefully inside him.</p> - -<p>When they had discussed this the others had been afraid. So had -Chester. Two alien forces, one hostile, both struggling, might rip -and rupture his psychic system like lightning bolts battling inside -a transistor. But Chester Forge was a stubborn man, with perhaps a -bureaucratic stubbornness, certainly a human stubbornness, and he was -committed to an end to be achieved.</p> - -<p>For a few split seconds there was in Chester's nervous system what -might be described as a "hush." He took advantage of it to step through -the open door into a dimly-lighted room. The hospital director, -insulation-swathed, followed with the leather-rustling husk.</p> - -<p>Then Minnn and Monnn locked forces, and Chester reeled with the shock -and swirl of the combat. The two forces mixed, fused, separated, -mingled, yet Chester somehow knew always which was which, got bursts -of the reasoning of each, knew in some indescribable way the alien, -indecipherable natures of each of them. For an instant he panicked. -Something mysterious and terrible as the dark energy of infinity was -pounding and flashing in his merely human synapses and cells, something -he understood yet could not understand at all.</p> - -<p>He felt a draining, and knew Minnn was tapping him for energy. Chester -rallied to help Monnn. He pulled his energy, his thoughts, away from -Minnn, rolling up, balling, clenching his powers, keeping them out of -reach, probing for a chance to strike. Minnn filamented through half -his body; part of the alien was needling and darting into Chester's -mind, burrowing toward knowledge of his plan. Chester buried his plan -in the very center of the ball of thoughts, hiding his last ace.</p> - -<p>He could not keep this up much longer, and he could feel that both -Minnn and Monnn knew this. It was time for the big assault. He sent -flash after flash of willpower crisping through his nerves, and Monnn -interwove himself in these assaults. Minnn was being forced back, and -back, intolerably pressured.</p> - -<p>Minnn hurled his energies at them in a sudden rush, and Chester felt -something in him begin to tear like a piece of silk.</p> - -<p>Concealed from Minnn like the kernel of a nut, Chester cupped the -knowledge, his last ace. He was at the verge of cracking, now was the -time to play it. He edged toward the wall of the room, where a patient -sat darkly on a bench. At the same time both he and Monnn drove forth -their last few ergs of pressure against Minnn.</p> - -<p>Chester felt something raise his arm. His arm moved toward the patient; -his palm touched the man's cheek. There was a sudden cleanness in him, -and Minnn was gone.</p> - -<p>He leaped backward through the door and it swung to and locked. A -peep-panel was opened in it and the black fringed husk hung up before -the opening. Chester touched the talking-attendant so Monnn could pass -over, then leaned weakly against the wall opposite the door.</p> - -<p>"I give him half an hour," he said. "Who's got a drink of water?"</p> - -<p>It turned out that they had waited only twenty-two minutes when the -fringed sac began to take a luster, to puff and to fill. When they were -quite sure Minnn was entirely within it, they wrapped it tightly in -the insulation and took it away.</p> - -<p>"It was a good plan," said Monnn through the talking-attendant as -they drove back toward the town. "We could never have forced him to -leave you to enter his husk—his logic would have driven him to fight -even harder and to stay, with rather unfortunate results to you, Mr. -Forge, but under pressure he would leave to enter another host. And -it was lucky the walls of that room held him—as you said, that was a -gamble we had to take. But I wish you would again describe to me the -phenomenon in that room. It sounds quite strange."</p> - -<p>"It's something that happens to humans," said Chester, "and I knew no -Ravian could put up with it. Illogic disturbs you, and you tour in -human beings only for the sake of one kind of emotion, the pleasant -kind. In that room there was no logic, and the emotions were of a -different kind, a kind you haven't heard of. The humans there were in -what is called a depressive ward. They are illogically unhappy, all the -time."</p> - -<p>"I see," said Monnn through the lips of the attendant. "You have good -logic, Mr. Forge. 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