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lava flow. Derec stepped from a hard level walkway and with the next
step, he was on grass. Outside.
He suddenly, foolishly, felt unprotected.
That s silly, he told himself. Mandelbrot s alongside you, and Alpha s
monitoring the whole thing through Witness robots. There are a half-
dozen Hunters waiting back in the city; they II get to you in seconds if
anything happens. You re as safe as you can be. Besides, you re the
one who insisted that the Three Laws protected you from the rogue.
He suddenly didn t feel very confident at all.
A low rumbling came from his right. Derec turned.
The rogue was there.
It crouched fifty meters up slope where a stand of trees had been
cleared by workers from the city. Perched atop one of the fallen logs
and in wolf shape, the rogue looked bigger than Derec had
remembered. Its claws were displayed, its mouth slightly open to
reveal the metal teeth set there. It reared up on its back legs as Derec
turned to it, standing perhaps a half-meter taller than Derec himself.
Mandelbrot had come alongside Derec without prompting, the
implicit threat in the rogue s pose forcing the robot to stay close
enough to intervene.
It s a robot. It follows the Laws. Derec took a deep breath, motioning
Mandelbrot back. I ve come to talk with you, he said to the rogue.
It growled, then spat out in Standard: I have challenged you already.
I did not come to talk.
At least tell me your name.
I am called SilverSide, the rogue answered, and Derec could have
sworn there was a hint of bravado in its voice, far more inflection
than any robot he had ever heard before. Whoever had programmed
it had been good. I am the Chosen of the OldMother, the Bane of
WalkingStones. Tell your WalkingStone to leave so that we may
decide who is the leader.
Derec looked at Mandelbrot, who had taken yet another step closer at
the rogue s words. Mandelbrot is compelled to protect me,
SilverSide. Tell him that you re not going to hurt me, and I can send
him back.
It is no protection to you at all, SilverSide answered, and her pale
eyes glanced at Mandelbrot. I have already defeated it once. I will do
it again, and then you and I will settle this.
No, I order you Derec began, but it was already too late.
The rogue moved faster than Derec thought possible. If Mandelbrot
had not been there, Derec would not have had a chance. Derec felt a
wind as Mandelbrot shot by him and met SilverSide.
The rogue collided with the onrushing Mandelbrot in a thunderous,
resounding crash. There was a blur of violent motion, and
Mandelbrot was suddenly down in the dirt, his legs thrashing
helplessly from a severed cable held in the rogue s claws. The rogue
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itself had a long scratch in its flank but otherwise seemed unharmed.
Derec opened his mouth to shout, to protest, to scream. The chemfets
told him that the Hunter-Seekers were coming, but they would be too
late.
Much too late.
SilverSide growled terribly, flung the cable away, and was on him. He
tried to raise his hands, hopelessly. Claws raked Derec s sides as she
grappled him and bore him down. No! he screamed. You can t hurt
me! I m a human
The rogue wailed.
I m a human the GodBeing Derec cried. The word set off a
bewildering spark of reactions in SilverSide s mind. Human! The
resonance from that VoidTongue word was stunning, and SilverSide
reeled from its effects.
A human being is an intelligent life form.
Intelligence. Human.
You are not human, SilverSide roared in denial, but she spoke in
HuntTongue the language of humans and no answer came to
her. Taking advantage of SilverSide s confusion, the GodBeing had
rolled to its feet, and now she struck at it once more, intending to
slash it open with her claws for its lie.
She could not. Could not. It was as if the OldMother controlled her
hand and brought the claws back at the last instant so that she missed
the GodBeing. She leapt at it instead, bearing it down again to roll it
gasping in the dirt, then moving away a step so that it could stay on its
back, submissive and beaten.
It either did not know to submit, or it would not. The GodBeing
staggered up once more, defiant. SilverSide rushed at it again. The
GodBeing screeched with pain as her arms wrapped around its chest
and squeezed.
Submit! she whispered to it, and it was as if the OldMother s will
made the words a plea. She wanted this to end. She wanted the
GodBeing to go limp and end this farce.
She was so much stronger than this thing of flesh. The GodBeing was
weak, weaker than the sickest of the kin. And yet it still struggled.
No! it shouted back, its face gone red, its eyes wide and mouth
gaping open. She could smell its breath, strangely sweet. No. You
must stop this. I order it. I am a human. You must obey me.
The words staggered SilverSide as if they were physical blows. Her
grasp loosened, and the GodBeing sagged to the ground. SilverSide
stared at it without seeing it, all her attention on the confusion within
her.
Human.
You must obey.
SilverSide howled in BeastTalk.
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