The Klygha is with us again. Desperation has made him quick, and he knows that we are with the cat. We feel him struggle ... and all our minds struggle with him.
Slowly, the cat creeps out into the open. It raises itself and speaks.
"There is no hoax, no trap," it says for the Klygha. "I could not control any being of advanced intelligence."
The Terrans silence their talk to look at the cat.
"I know you have a helicopter," says the cat. "To verify what I tell you, it is necessary only for you to send someone out in it when you return. The wreck of my ship will be easy to locate and observe."
They make the cat repeat this twice more, because it does not talk well by their standards. Then they speak among themselves for a long time while the Klygha fears to interrupt them.
In the end, Halloran bends himself into the comfortable place where Marvin had rested and begins to make the Terran travelling-shell return to us.
The Light goes and comes again before they arrive. It must be a very great distance that they travel. Finally, terrible noises tear apart the clouds and the Terrans return in a burst of flame streaking down from the sky.
The noise fades. Once again, the tall thing stands upright on our beach, where now more of the sand is blackened and smoking.
The Klygha sees this through individuals whom he has forced to watch. When the flames stop, he allows the rest of us to come out of the breakers.