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For two days, the Ancient Mariner lay hidden in the hills. It was visible all that time, but at least two of the men were watching the sky every hour of the day. Torlos himself was, they knew, perfectly trustworthy, but they did not know whether his people were as honorable as he claimed them to be.
Arcot and Wade were in the control room on the afternoon of the second day -- not Earth days, but the forty-hour Nansalian days -- and they had been quietly discussing the biological differences between themselves and the inhabitants of this planet.