Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 62: what you’re looking at

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THE ENVIED trative posts. Once she went to the Panacea, but hesitated on the steps and then turned away. In the end she came back to her Instructor and said: “T will go to Venus.” The brief nod of the head was formal and unsurprised. “We were sure from the very beginning that that was where your interests lay.” “But I’ve never had any idea——” “It was clear to us. We do not often make mistakes. But we must let each mind make its own discoveries.” “Tf ’m wrong? If I want to come back?” “Then you may come back. But you are not wrong. I envy you. I wish you peace and fulfilment: and may you find the answer.” ‘Warren and Deborah were happy for some years, and then reasonably contented. Time blurred the first pas- sion, and blurred many other things. At first his feelings about the Greys were com- 61 pletely submerged: when they stirred in the back of his mind, he repulsed them. The horror of Judith’s attack, and the threat that lay behind it, gave him an occasional night- mare. But life was vigorous, and in the daylight his uneasy memories were blown away. It was Deborah who first prodded his old resentments into wakefulness. “When,” she demanded, “are you going to get pro- motion? You’ve been in that office long enough, goodness knows.” ‘I don’t see how I can get any higher. All the higher- grade posts are. filled by Greys.” “The Greys are getting their hands on_ everything nowadays. Haven’t you got any courage at all? When is someone going to do some- thing about it?” “Well . . . there’s a new party being formed to try to counteract the Grey influence in the World Gouncil. But I don’t know if it'll come to anything.” ~~ Ecomichbooks.conm