I was careful to restrain my impatience. "You could come with us to Earth," I argued, without raising my voice. "You wouldn't be lonesome there."
"I couldn't live that long out of the sun," she answered.
"How did you live on the Master's ship?" I asked.
"They could bring the sunlight inside. You can't."
"Isn't there any way we could keep you alive?" I asked.
She shook her head.
Which left nothing except my desperate plan.
Burgess made the preparations I requested, without question, and I returned to Kohnke. It took me some time to get him in the frame I wanted. When he began to blubber, "I want to go home, I want to go home," I led him from the ship.
The anamorph was outside, as I knew she would be. The men were all in the ship.