When that was done, when they were all in the ship, Trevor nodded to the two mining technicians.
"Now," he said. "The entrance to the catacomb is right over there."
The two went away, carrying their bulky burden slung between them. Presently they came back again without it.
Trevor took his sun-stone from his pocket. Jen clutched his arm and cried, "No!"
"There's no danger now," he said. "He hasn't time enough left to do anything with me. And—I feel somehow that I should tell him—"
He put the sun-stone to his brow, and in his mind he cried,
"Shannach!"
And into his mind came the cold, tremendous presence of the Last One. In an instant it had read Trevor's thoughts.
"So this is the end, Trevor?"
"Yes," Trevor said steadily. "The end."