Kuru's teeth chattered slightly. Undoubtedly, he was looking upon the representatives of a race of gods. They could command the powers of lightning.
Still, he could not run away even now, because only a female would come screaming home to tell of what she had merely seen from afar. A hunter like Kuru, who was already a respected member of the family council, would investigate and have something more to tell other than how frightened he was. On the contrary, he must show how brave he could be. He must get closer to the sky-cave of the gods and watch them for a while....
"Infra-red picked it up. It's something pretty big, over in that tall tree. Been there since before sundown."
"Hmmm.... Patience, cunning, warm-blooded, large size. Do you think—"
"Now don't let's get back on that again!"
"But Henderson said he saw one with his binoculars, up on that ridge, early this afternoon."
"Good God, Frank! Can't you realize you're being victimized by an old complex? Why is it we have to find human beings on other worlds? We've been searching the stars unsuccessfully for more than a millenium."
"This is our farthest reach out into the galaxy—"
"Yeah. By God, it's almost six hundred light years, twenty years by chronology, and two for us even under trans-C time contraction. That, my friend, is some traveling!"