He stood for a moment in a scanner field. A door flicked back suddenly, out of sight, and a strange face peered at him—an Earthman face, on the surface of things at least.
The Earthman beckoned him in.
"I'm Armin Moulton," he said in a deep voice. "You're Harris?"
"That's right."
"Beth is waiting to see you."
The subsonic has a range of forty feet in any direction, Harris thought. No one Should be closer to you than three feet.
He was shown into an inner room well furnished with drapes and hangings. Beth stood in the middle of the room, smiling at him. She wore thick, shapeless clothes, quite unlike the seductive garb she had had on when Harris first collided with her.
There were others in the room. Harris recognized the other Medlin, Coburn, and the giant named Wrynn who claimed to be a super-Earthman. There was another woman of Wrynn's size in the room, a great golden creature nearly a foot taller than Harris, and two people of normal size who were probably Medlins.
"Well?" Beth asked.
In a tight voice Harris said, "He's dead. I've just come from there."