Particularly he questioned me about our physical bodies of Earth--the human body; and when I told him how mortal it was, how easily injured, he seemed disturbed. But only for a moment. "I have been--well, very nearly in your Earth-state," he said. "I know how it feels. You have things with which to harm that body. Weapons--tell me of them." I described our weapons; our warfare. Our poisons. I will admit it gave me a gloating pleasure grewsomely to picture all the dangers to which our mortal flesh is heir. But outwardly he was undisturbed. He interrupted me once with a sharp admonition to Bee. "You think you can send your thoughts back to the Big-City and guide them here, don't you? I would not try that, if I were you!" Bee started with guilt. She had been attempting to do that. Her thoughts had gone back, at first instinctively, then with a conscious direction, but he was stopping her now. Around us like a veil a barrier was materializing. Eo said gently, "She will not do that, Brutar. She is friendly to us." His hand very lightly touched Bee. He added earnestly, "I like you--girl." Brutar momentarily had turned away; I think he was not aware of what Eo had said. I saw that Bee was smiling. I felt her voice saying very gently. "I like you, too. You are very kind--I think you are very good. On Earth we would call you--a boy." "Boy!" He murmured it. "I like the way that sounds--hearing you call me--boy!" Brutar had risen erect. "You have told me a great deal, Rob. We shall be friends." He was eyeing me. "On Earth when we get there, I shall make you into a great man--a very powerful man. You would like that?" Did he feel that my intelligence was so limited that he could bribe me thus crudely? I smiled. "Oh, yes--I should like that. But I've told you so much, and you haven't told me anything. How did you first find our Earth? How did you get yourself into that Borderland, and beyond? You were the first to go, weren't you?" "The first," he said proudly. "I discovered it--well, by accident. Shall I show you how? And what I am doing to take all my loyal followers there with me?" "Yes." I agreed. "That is what I want." He led us outside. Eo walked close by Bee. I saw now that the encampment was itself one tremendous hollow globe; on Earth we would have said that it had a diameter of at least a mile. Brutar explained it proudly. Here, in the void of Space, his organized workmen had spun this huge shell of thought-matter. It was tenuous; I had not known when we passed through it coming in. Yet it was visible; within it we gazed at its interior surface. It glowed with a very pale dull light.