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to see you, Brandd."

"I know." The tension drained from Brion's body as suddenly as it had
appeared. "Sit down and rest."

Lea could not stop herself from moving aside as Carver dropped, sighing, onto
the lounge beside her. She could hear his heavy breathing, see the
perspiration standing out on his skin as he fumbled a capsule from his pocket
and put it into his mouth. He looked sideways at her and nodded. "Doctor Lea
Morees," he said. "They want you too."

"Culrel?" Brion asked. Carver nodded.

"The Cultural Relationships Foundation. I understand you have worked with us
before?"

"We did. It was an emergency ..."

"It's always an emergency. Something very important has come up. I was sent to
see you."

"Why us? We've just come from a hell-hole of a planet named Dis. Lea has been
ill. We were prom-

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ised some more time before we would be contacted. We agreed to work for your
people again, but not right now ..."

"I told you—it's always an emergency." Carver's voice was hoarse and he
pressed his good hand between his knees to stop the trembling. It was pain or
fatigue—or both—and he was not giving in to it. "I've just come from another
one of these emergencies, as you can see, or I would be going myself. If it
makes you feel any better I know what happened to you both on Dis so I offered
to take care of this one myself. They laughed at me. I don't think it was very
funny. Are you both ready now?" He turned to face Brion as he said it.

"You can't force Lea to go, not now. I'll take care of it myself." Carver
shook his head.

"You're to go as a team, the orders were specific about that. Shared talents,
a synergistic union

"I'm going with Brion," Dea said. I'm feeling much better. By the time we get
wherever we're going I'll be back to normal."
"That's very pleasing to hear. As you know we are a fully voluntary
organization." He ignored Brion's snort of derision as he struggled a flat
plastic box from the pocket of his tunic. "As I am sure you are aware, almost