3 to 6, 3 to 6, (Jon's frequency oscillated from 3 to 6 as he drifted through clouds of super-heated gas) 3 to 6, 3 to 6--7 to 10! (Someone was coming.) U to 10, 7 to 10, (It was getting closer; suddenly:) 10 to 16! (Then:) 3 to 6, 7 to 10, 3 to 6, 7 to 10, (they had passed through each other. _Hi_, Petra said. _Have you any idea where we are?_) (_The temperature is somewhere near three quarters of a million degrees. Any ideas?_) 9 to 27, 9 to 27, 9 to 27 (came puttering along and passed through both Jon and Petra;) 12 to 35, 10 to 37, (and then, again) 3 to 6, 7 to 10, 9 to 27, 9 to 27, 9 to 27 (_We are halfway between the surface and the center of a star not unlike our sun_, said Arkor. _Note all the strange elements around._) 9 to 27, 9 to 27, 9 to 27. 7 to 10, 7 to 10, 7 to 10 (_They keep on turning into one another_, Petra said.) 7 to 10, 7 to 10, 7 to 10. 3 to 6, 3 to 6, 3 to 6 (_At this temperature you would too if you were atomic_, Jon told her.) 3 to 6, 3 to 6, 3 to 6. 9 to 27, 9 to 27, 9 to 27 (_Where's our friend?_ Arkor wanted to know.) pi to e, pi to 2e, 2pi to 4e, 4pi to 8e, 8pi to 16e, 16pi to 32e. (_Speak of the_ ... Jon started. _Hey, we've got to do something about that. Not only is it transcendental, it's increasing so fast he'll eventually shake this star apart._) 3 to 6, 3 to 6, 3 to 6. (_So that's what causes novas_, said Petra.) 7 to 10, 7 to 10, 7 to 10. (At the next oscillation, Arkor, acting as a side-coefficient, passed through the intruder.) 32^{2}pi to 64e (Arkor got out before the second extremity was reached. The wave cycle stuttered, having been reversed end on end.) 642pi to 32e (It tried to right itself and couldn't because Jon spun through the lower end divisibility) 642pi to 16/9e (then Arkor jumped in, tail first it recovered and it resolved into:) 642pi to 4/3e, 642pi to 4/3e, 642pi to 4/3e (it quivered, its range no longer geometric). (_Watch this_, said Petra, _About face...._ She gave it a sort of nudge, not passing through it, so that when it whirled to catch her, she was gone, and it was going the other way:) 4/3pi to 642e, 4/3pi to 642e, 4/3pi to 642e, (_I hope no one ever does that to me_, said Petra. _Look, the poor thing is contracting._) 4/3 to 640e, 4/3pi to 622, 4/3pi to 560, 4/3pi to 499, (Somehow the _e_ component chanced to slip through 125. Jon moved in like a shower of anti-theta-mazons and extracted a painless cube so fast that the intruder oscillated on it three times before it knew what had happened to it:)