The Colors of Space - Page 72/108

Bart's resolve hardened. Loneliness had done odd things to him--thinking

of Ringg, a Lhari, one of the freaks who had killed his father, as a

friend! If they knew who he was, they would turn on him, hunt him down

as they'd hunted Briscoe, as they'd hunted his father, as they'd hounded

him from Earth to Procyon. He put his scruples aside. He'd made up his

mind.

They could all die. What did he care? He was human and he was going to

be loyal to his own kind.