The Guardians
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Mryna Brill intended to ride the god-car above the rain mist, and for a long time had not believed in the taboos or the Earth-god, and no longer believed she lived on Earth. The paradise of green-floored forests and running brooks is something called Rythar. Mryna finds a few scorched pages of a printed pamphlet buried deep in the black earth. The pamphlet is part of a promotional advertisement of a world called Rythar, "the jewel of the Sirian Solar System."
A report Mryna reads says there is direct evidence that no animal life has ever evolved on Rythar, and that the life cycle is exclusively botanical. Mryna says, "I'm ready," and asks for warships to be sent up to destroy her. A passage worries that if she failed, Earth would one day be destroyed by children bred on too many delusions.
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- Author
- Irving E. Cox
- Pages
- 18
- Language
- English
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