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Khepera left a bad taste in Trask's mouth. He was still tasting it when the colored turbulence died out of the screen and left the gray nothingness of hyperspace. Garvan Spasso -- they had had no trouble in inducing him to come along -- was staring avidly at the screen as though he could still see the ravished planet they had left.
"That was a good one; that was a good one! " he was crowing. He'd said that a dozen times since they had lifted out. "Three cities in five days, and all the stuff we gathered up around them. We took over two million stellars."