He sat down again, smiling.
hat does it!" Darrig cried. "He's not invulnerable. Something killed his friend Alfern."
"Something out in space," Cercy reminded him. "I wonder what it was."
"Let me see," Darrig reflected aloud. "The regularizing principle. That must be a natural law we knew nothing about. And underneath—what would be underneath?"
"He said the colonization team would find us anyhow," Malley reminded them.
"First things first," Cercy said. "He might have been bluffing us ... no, I don't suppose so. We still have to get the Ambassador out of the way."
"I think I know what is underneath!" Darrig exclaimed. "This is wonderful. A new cosmology, perhaps."
"What is it?" Cercy asked. "Anything we can use?"