Rastignac's little group skirted the battle and started down the steep avenue toward the harbor. Halfway down he glanced back and saw that nobody as yet was paying any attention to them. Nor was there anybody on the street to bother them, though the pavement was strewn with Skins and bodies. Apparently, those who'd lived through the first savage melee had gone to the square. They ran onto the wharf. The Earthwoman motioned to Rastignac that she knew how to open the spaceship, but the Amphibs didn't. Moreover, if they did get in, they wouldn't know how to operate it. She had the directions for so doing in the book hugged so desperately to her chest. Rastignac surmised she hadn't told the Amphibs about that. Apparently they hadn't, as yet, tried to torture the information from her. Therefore, her telling him about the book indicated she trusted him. Lusine said, "Now what, Jean-Jacques? Are you still going to abandon this planet?" "Of course," he snapped. "Will you take me with you?" He had spent most of his life under the tutelage of his Skin, which ensured that others would know when he was lying. It did not come easy to hide his true feelings. So a habit of a lifetime won out. "I will not take you," he said. "In the first place, though you may have some admirable virtues, I've failed to detect one. In the second place, I could not stand your blood-drinking nor your murderous and totally immoral ways." "But, Jean-Jacques, I will give them up for you!" "Can the shark stop eating fish?" "You would leave Lusine, who loves you as no Earthwoman could, and go with that--that pale little doll I could break with my hands?" "Be quiet," he said. "I have dreamed of this moment all my life. Nothing can stop me now." They were on the wharf beside the bridge that ran up the smooth side of the starship. The guard was no longer there, though bodies showed that there had been reluctance on the part of some to leave. They let the Earthwoman precede them up the bridge. Lusine suddenly ran ahead of him, crying, "If you won't have me, you won't have her, either! Nor the stars!" Her knife sank twice into the Earthwoman's back. Then, before anybody could reach her, she had leaped off the bridge and into the harbor. Rastignac knelt beside the Earthwoman. She held out the book to him, then she died. He caught the volume before it struck the wharf. "My God! My God!" moaned Rastignac, stunned with grief and shock and sorrow. Sorrow for the woman and shock at the loss of the ship and the end of his plans for freedom. Mapfarity ran up then and took the book from his nerveless hand. "She indicated that this is a manual for running the ship," he said. "All is not lost." "It will be in a language we don't know," Rastignac whispered. Archambaud came running up, shrilled, "The Amphibs have broken through and are coming down the street! Let's get to our boat before the whole blood-thirsty mob gets here!"