The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix — John Shaqi
The Devolutionist and the EmancipatrixFlint, Homer Eon
Science
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
Flint, Homer Eon
Life on other planets -- Fiction; Science fiction
"Look out! Here comes Dulnop!" [Footnote: It made no difference
whatever as to what language was used. The telepathic process
employed enabled the investigators to know all that their agents'
subconscious minds took in. The brains of the four automatically
translated these thought-images into their own language. However,
this method did not enable them to learn what their agents were
thinking, but only what they said, heard, and saw.] cried Kinney's
agent; at the same time she made a special effort, and succeeded in
breaking off a good half of the branch.
Instantly she darted to one side, where she calmly began to pluck
some small, hard-shelled nuts from the branch, and proceeded to
crack them, with entire ease, using a set of teeth which must have
been absolutely perfect.
She gave the latest comer only a glance or two. He--for it certainly
was a man--was nearly a half a foot taller than the girl already
described; but he was plainly not much older or younger, and in
build and color much the same. He was clothed neither more nor less
than she, the only difference being that some leopardlike animal had
contributed the material. In his belt was tucked a primitive stone
hammer, also a stone knife. His face was longer than hers, his eyes
darker; but he was manifestly still very boyish. Dulnop, they had
called him.
"Hail, Cunora!" he called to the girl who had brought the nuts;
then, to her who was watching: "Rolla! Where got ye the nuts?"
Rolla didn't answer; she couldn't use her mouth just then; it was
too full of nuts. She merely nodded in the direction of Cunora.
"Give me some, Cunora!"
The younger girl gave no reply, but backed away from him as he
approached; her eyes sparkled mischievously and, the doctor thought,
somewhat affectionately. Dulnop made a sudden darting move toward
her branch, and she as swiftly whirled in her tracks, so that he
missed. However, he instantly changed his mind and grasped the girl
instead. Like a flash he drew her to him and kissed her noisily.
Next second he was staggering backward under the weight of her hard
brown fist. "Do that again, and I'll have the hair out of thy head!"
the girl screamed, her face flaming. Yet Kinney saw that the man was
laughing joyously even as he rubbed the spot where her blow had
landed, while the expression of her eyes quite belied what she had
said.
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