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And sometime in the midst of that survey he did fall asleep, so deeply that Wonstead had to shake him awake in the morning.

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Suddenly he wished that Wonstead had not killed it, though he supposed that

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Certainly he did not claim Wonstead who had shared his quarters -- he honestly did not care if he never saw him again.

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He heard Wonstead move, saw from the corner of his eye the other's bulk heave up obediently from the pad.

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But the patch remained stubbornly gray, the murmur of Wonstead went on and on, a drone in his aching ears, the throb of the ship's life beat through his own thin body.

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"D'you hear that, kid?" demanded Wonstead, his voice no longer an accusing whine, more steady than Raf ever remembered hearing it.

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But he remained sitting on the edge of the pad until Wonstead left the cabin, and he followed as slowly as he could.

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If he did not move, Wonstead was capable of reporting him to the captain for strange behavior, and they were all too alert to a divagation which might mean trouble.

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Wonstead carried the limp body of a rabbit-sized furred creature he had knocked over at the waterside.

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He heard rather than saw Wonstead blunder in to follow his example, and for the first time in months the other was dumb, not uttering a word as he stowed away for the breakthrough which should take them back into normal space and the star worlds.

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