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This tree was nothing but a mousetrap, and we were the mice! Why hadn't one of us carried the discussion a bit further? Any idiot should know that biological agents were fully as deadly as physical ones. And these people were self-admittedly predatory. Contempt at my stupidity was the only emotion that filled my mind--that we would be trapped like a flock of brainless sheep and led bleating happily to slaughter. Raw anger surged through me, smothering my fear in a red blanket of rage.
K'wan shook his head. "Your reaction works against you. It's primitive--and, I think, dangerous. We cannot risk associating with a race that cannot control themselves. You have developed too fast--too soon. We are an old race and a slow race, and our warlike days are far behind us. The council was right. Something must be done about you or there will be more of your kind on Lyrane--hard, driving, uncontrolled, violent." He sighed--a very human sigh--half regret, half resignation.
"And you promised no harm would come to us if we came with you," I thought bitterly.
"I said you would come to no harm, nor will you. You'll just be changed a little."
"Like Alex?"
"Yes."
"What did you do to him?"
He grinned, exposing his long tusks. "You'll find out," he said. He sounded just like a villain in a cheap melodrama.
He took the menticom circlet off my head and all communication stopped. Two other Lyranians stepped through the wall, lifted me and carried me out like a shanghaied drunk from a spaceport bar. I wasn't particularly surprised at the laboratory that lay behind the wall. After all, an observation cage had to have its laboratory facilities.
These were good--very good indeed. Even though I knew hardly anything about biological laboratories, there was no doubt that here were the products of an advanced technology. I hated to admit it, but it looked as though we had run into what we had always feared but had never found--a civilization superior to ours. From the windowless appearance of the place, it was probably underground, and K'wan's look and nod seemed to confirm my guess.
They laid me out on a table, took blood and tissue samples and proceeded to forget me while they ran tests and analyses. I kept trying to move, but it wasn't any use.
A group of about a dozen oldsters came in, looked at me and went away. The council, I guessed.
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