CHAPTER VIIIDuke looked thoughtfully at the woman who was walking with him across a room that had ceased to frighten her—away from the couch where she had reposed and been helped by the silent Scorpion healer.
“If you have an unknown world to show me, let us go and look at it together.”
He seemed to be turning the words over in his mind and suddenly he said, “For months now we have been conducting tests—screenings—to determine what men and women have the vision, the endurance, the strength of purpose to help us in the great task we have undertaken. Perhaps ‘search’ would be a better word. We have searched far, and now at last we have found the right kind of human material. Human nature is very much the same everywhere on Earth. But we thought it best that the men and women we select shou
