"I'd prefer the former," The President said briefly.
"Good. I imagine your aide told you some of it, but I'd better recap that and then go on."
Rex nodded briefly in The Press Secretary's direction. It was the silvery-haired man's first acknowledgement of his presence.
"You are probably curious as to who I am and just what the Seventh Sector is. I'll tell you. The Seventh Sector is a team denoting a certain part of the known universe. It contains approximately nine-hundred thousand solids of a twenty-million-ton weight or over. Eleven of these solids supports animate life at around the evolutionary stage of your own—or higher. Do you follow me?"
When The President was slow in answering, Rex said "I suggest you lay aside any mental resistance and take all statements I make as fact."
"Why should I do that?"
"Because my deceiving you would be pointless and because I must transfer a great deal of information to your mind in a very short time."
The President said nothing and Rex went on. "As Director of this sector, it is my job to check the development on its various planets and make progress reports to the Council."
"And this Council is located—?"
"Many light years from here—at the hub of the known universe, but that is not important."