Explore "The World that Couldn'T Be" by Clifford D. Simak on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
He should go back, he knew. Without the tracker, he didn't have a chance. The odds were now with the Cytha -- if, indeed, they had not been with it from the very start.
Unkillable? Unkillable because it grew in intelligence to meet emergencies? Unkillable because, pressed, it could fashion a bow and arrow, however crude? Unkillable because it had a sense of tactics, like rolling rocks at night upon its enemy? Unkillable because a native tracker would cheerfully kill itself to protect the Cytha?