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CLOUD, RETURNING to his cruiser, found that most of his shipwrecked passengers had departed. Five of them, however-the two Chickladorians, the Manarkan, the squatty, and the Vegian-were still on board. Thlaskin, now back to normal, came to attention and saluted crisply; the women bowed or nodded and looked at him with varying degrees of interrogation.
"How come, Thlaskin? I thought all the passengers were going back with the task force."