Orun

"Orun," he told the young Mercan, "we'll tell you and the Guardians everything.

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Lenos, please see to it that all of them have comfortable quarters … including Orun, who shall also be our guest as he tells us about these four new Technic people.

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Orun gave the older man a small hand-held device similar to the one Lenos had used to transport all of them to Celerbitan, but he gave it up with obvious reluctance.

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There seemed to be a basic paradox, a touch of illogic, or a contradiction in Orun's statement, but Kirk was not about to argue it.

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In addition, Kirk wore the Mercan sidearm that Orun had purchased for him in Celerbitan.

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Orun didn't nod; he simply raised his head quickly in the Mercan manner of signifying agreement.

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Orun had shown them the Mercan equivalent of books—small cubes like Orun's map of Mercan that unfolded into sequential sheets of paperlike substance with printing on the sheets in the as-yet-undeciphered Mercan written symbols that looked so much like Arabic script on Earth.

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Then he said to Orun, "So the Guardians developed the traveler and made an agreement with those who become the Proctors … and together they unified the Abode?"

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"We know similar stories on other abodes, Orun," the star-ship captain told him.

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Second, if the Technic does attempt to make contact with us as Orun claims they will, I want all of us to be there … and I do not want to have to search a whole planet to find the other half of my landing party.

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