He came suddenly with a driving leap from the doorway and dropped among us. "All is ready. Come."
We ignored the girls. Snap again protested that he was hungry, which indeed, for me at least, was certainly the truth. And I was parched with thirst. I felt that this vaunted strength of my Earth body would not last long without food and drink.
We entered the globular interior. There were narrow corridors; triangular rooms; a slatted, ladder-like incline leading upward to a higher level.
The girls followed Meka up the incline. Molo and Wyk herded us into a nearby room. "You will have your food and drink here. Cause Wyk no trouble and you will be quite safe."
He turned, but Snap plucked at him. "When are you coming back?"
"Not too long."
I said, "We will cause you no trouble. Take us on the ship."
"I will see."
He murmured to Wyk in Martian, then left us.