Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 205: what you’re looking at

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times on it with the metal flashlight. “Come on, let’s get out of here.” He started to move toward the passage. Lights flashed on in the passage and flight deck. He stopped, bewildered by the sudden glare, and glanced back at the control position. There was another light beside the first now, also purple. As he watched, another winked on, and a thin red line began to climb up one of the tubes. Bertha was coming alive. “Listen!” McKay said. “Do you hear something?” A thin sound, just on the edge of audibility, built up quickly to a heavy boom. It was a voice. “lbj b’kirac” it said. “Ngaroq!” “Pressure!” Goodrich said. “We're getting pressure in here!” There were six purple lights on the panel, and green dots and red lines were crawling on the glass surfaces he had thought of as indicating instruments. The hatch, he thought suddenly, if we’ve got pressure, the hatch must be closed— “Get below and see if Brown made it out the hatch,” he told McKay. “If he didn’t, see if you can get it open and get out with him, he Knows what to do.” “How about you?” “Never mind me. Were committed now, I'll stay here and meet these people, whoever they are; but | want that rocket in the clear. Now move!” “Uirq-sebusa!” the strange voice said. “Uirq-sebusa!” McKay jumped and flew down the passage clumsily, Shoving himself off the curve with his hands. The voice spoke again: “Uirgq-sebusa! Uirg-sebusa!” This time, Goodrich localized the sound as coming from what might have been a speaker in the overhead. He started to move back to the control position, looking for something that might be a microphone, and found he could not. CORniclooo SS (SO)