Twenty minutes later the desk transmitter gave her the "to be shielded" signal. Up went the barrier again.
Major Quillan's face looked out at her from the screen. He was, Trigger saw, in Mantelish's lab. Mantelish stood at a work bench behind him.
"Hi!" he said.
"Hi, yourself. When did you get in?"
"Just now. Could you pick up the whoosis-and-whichis and bring it up here?"
"Right now?"
"If you can," Quillan said. "The professor's got something new, he thinks."
"I'm on my way," said Trigger. "Take about five minutes."
She hurried down to her quarters, summoned Repulsive's container into the room and slung the strap over her shoulder.
Then she stood still a moment, frowning slightly. Something—something like a wisp of memory, something she should be remembering—was stirring in the back of her mind. Then it was gone.