"Death to the enemy."
It was plain whom the enemy was to be.
Revanche fell to his knees.
"Mercy!"
Its saber lifted. The immobile lips roared.
"Justice!"
EPILOGUE
Da Vincelleo, hovering far above Dafess in a spaceship, watched the final scene upon the TV screen before him. Then, sighing because it hurt him to destroy his greatest work of art, he pressed a red button. And he saw the city of Dafess disappear in the old and familiar, but still terrible, mushroom.
"That fool Revanche!" he said. "Did he really think I'd massacre an entire city and take a million to one chance of escaping retribution from the Solar Police?"