Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THE ENVIED had themselves created and brought upon themselves ? The car rose with breath- taking swiftness, and _ the towers and spires of the city reeled away beneath. Warren had acted purely on impulse, but now a thou- sand confused plans began to froth wildly inside his head. The Judith he had known was dead; but there would soon be another Judith, and might he not be able to get in touch with her? Perhaps if he insisted on remaining with her, or at any rate visit- ing her frequently in those > early stages, he would be able to prevent her from drifting away as so many human beings drifted when they had been transmuted. Whatever it was that the Greys did to cancel out old loyalties, he must be there to combat it. His mind had always been in tune with Judith’s. Perhaps there would still be a link— enough to give him a hold, however precarious, on her. The driver began to talk to him unexpectedly. His sen- 11 tences were brief and imper- sonal, as though he were re- citing a carefully-memorised lesson. ‘You don’t want to pursue this too far. Be wise. Your friend will forget when she begins her new life. You will forget, unless you are foolish enough to make yourself go on remembering.” ““T don’t see,” said Warren challengingly, “why people who have known one another for a long time shouldn’t keep in touch.” “That is because you do not understand.” “Does anybody? Any normal person, that is? If you don’t make it your busi- ness to explain to us . ‘“Many things have been explained,” came the bland reply. “Oh, yes, lots of things. Official handouts : we’ve had plenty of those. No ordinary human being can fly to the planets because his body won't stand up to the strain. His metabolism would let him down on other worlds. And comiclooks.conn