"And what do we do now?"
"I think we had best question the one we picked up."
Linus Brein shook his head. "Not that one," he said.
"Why not?"
"When we pried open his scoutcraft, he came out a-fighting and he fought until we had to take him over. He clipped several of our boys, and I'm afraid we got a little rough. Our fighting men can get hard, you know."
"Dead?" demanded Viggon.
"No. But he'll be in no condition for an extensive questioning for some time."
"Damn! Well, the next best thing to do is to collect the lifeship. We know what we wanted to know about their mass reaction. Now we must learn about their individual reaction to an awkward and dangerous situation."
Faren Twill picked up the microphone and ordered a flight of light destroyers into action....