V
He was roused by Tabak, the Caligan girl, shaking his shoulder. "Wake up!" she was whispering urgently, her violet-blue eyes shining with suppressed excitement. "Wake up, Wanderer-from-Beyond, and come with me!"
Jupiter sat up with a start. "How did you get in here?"
Tabak rotated her shoulder, and the yellow furred boj rippled like liquid light. "Through the door."
"But it was locked."
"It operates by telepathic control."
"Of course."
Jupiter scratched his beard. He'd known it all along. Nor was that all. If he would only concentrate, he could manipulate the lock himself!
To his growing amazement, he realized that he knew the city by the Dra Dur as well as his home town of Venusport.
While he slept, his subconscious had integrated Tabak's fund of knowledge, made it a part of his own. He was changed. He didn't look at things quite the same. His own hard ruthless personality had become tinctured with something of Tabak's soft deviousness.