And then they both laughed. Laughed until the tears came, two pygmies in Space, two pygmies against a solar system of planets with a whole universe to hear them. Then slowly, two fine trails of fire started toward a slender, streamlined shape that hovered ten thousand miles off. Somewhere high above them, a Cepheid winked. Knowingly. End of Project Gutenberg's The Man the Tech-Men Made, by Fox B. Holden