"I think," he said, "we had better call a meeting. There are some vital problems we must face. I—I have expected something like this ever since we landed last night."
Last night? Matt thought. Only last night. It seems like a year ago.
"When do you want to call the meeting?" Captain Bascom asked.
"After the evening meal. We are in a peculiar position. We may be the only human survivors!"
Matt said, "Surely—someplace—someone escaped the plague. It's inconceivable that it wiped out the entire species."
"Species have been wiped out before," Trigg reminded him grimly. "But there is a chance, of course, that isolated communities have survived. That's one thing I want to take up at the meeting. The possibility of contacting any survivors."
Matt realized the director was regarding Lynn grimly.
"Until we do establish contact with other communities," Trigg went on, "we'll have to assume that we are alone...."
"What are you driving at?"
"Survival!"