And what did that mean, for our current problems?
‘Termination,’ said Pense abruptly. ‘Is there more said of that, Ori?’
Ori shook his head. ‘No, and I checked thoroughly because that occurred to me, too. But you brought an answer back with you, no? They merely killed that poor mad drayk in a usual kind of way.’ He frowned as he spoke, and I could well understand why. The impersonal way in which the poor creature — subject thirty-eight — had been treated, brought to life and then dispassionately killed, was chilling. I wondered whether it had been maddened, like the one we had seen in the Library.
‘I wonder what happened after it was revived,’ said Pense.
‘Yes,’ I said, frowning. ‘If they killed it because it was mad, what would they do when it came back? And what did the rest of its “
