"Come away then, you fool!"
He twisted, trying to pull free of Alice's fear, away from the integration of their separate terrors. But he couldn't push her thoughts back from his. She was too frightened. He was too frightened. The bond held.
"Oh, Pete, Pete, what did you do?"
He didn't answer. He landed the copter, stepped out of it, walked back to the other copter that was just dropping down behind him. "But officer, what's the matter?"
Alice Hendricks huddled down in the seat, already seeing tomorrow's papers, and her picture, and she wasn't really photogenic, either.... And then, from the other copter, she heard the woman laugh.
"Pete Ganley, you fall for anything, don't you?"
"Susan!"
"You didn't expect me to follow you, did you? Didn't it ever occur to you that detectives could put a bug in your copter? My, what we've been hearing!"
"Yeah," the detective who was driving said. "And those pictures we took last night weren't bad either."
"Susan, I can explain everything...."