![]() Ungarn lives to destroy him and his daughter. But before he can, he is kidnapped by the Dreegh who use their mental powers to convince him to travel to the asteroid where Dr. ![]() Leigh is stunned and isn’t sure how to report this story and make it believable. As a lower, fugitive race, the Dreegh will be dealt with most harshly. The young woman confronts them and warns the Dreegh that Earth is to be left alone. Leigh arrives and soon is joined by a young woman who hastily takes him through a secret door to a subterranean chamber where the Dreeghs are living. Soon after the publication of his article, he is invited by a stranger to his favorite New York restaurant to dine in a private room. The story is investigated and reported by one of the world’s most recognized reporters – Bill Leigh. Ungarn – currently residing on an asteroid near the Jupiter moon of Europa – devised serum to rid most of mankind of its murderous impulses. The murders shock the people on earth because murder is almost unheard of since Dr. They then bury their spaceship under a New York restaurant where they dwell. They are in dire need of blood and attack two humans right away to restore themselves. " two fugitive Dreeghs – energy vampires that suck blood and use energy – land on Earth. There followed crystal-clear awareness of the girl's psychology, objective admiration for the system of isolated upbringing that made Klugg girls such fine breeders and then - Purpose!" The structure of her body and her face, to Leigh so finely, proudly shaped, so gloriously patrician - found low grade now.Īn excellent example of low-grade development in isolation.That was the thought, not contemptuous, not derogatory, simply an impression by an appallingly direct mind that saw - overtones, realities behind realities,a thousand facts where one showed. On all Earth, no woman had ever been so piercingly examined. The mind flashed back from the garden and this time, for the first time, studied the girl. Shrubs that added infinitesimal discord not harmony to the superb garden. Birds not suited, for a dozen reasons, to their environment. The wrongness was frequently a subtle thing. It was not a matter of anything being hopelessly bad. Automatically, it saw some of the possibilities and by comparison the reality suffered. His gaze flashed out to the garden, and in instants tore it to mental shreds.Never in all his existence had he seen or felt criticism on such a high,devastating scale. "The room and the girl in it changed, not physically, but subjectively, in what he saw, in the details.ĭetails burned at him furniture and design that a moment before had seemed a flowing, artistic whole, abruptly showed flaws, hideous errors in taste and arrangement and structure. The observer here, apparently a reporter named Bill Leigh, suddenly discovers he is actually the personality overlay of a covert 'Great Galactic' operative. I was fascinated by this graphic description of what reality would be like to someone of immense intelligence. ![]() Another SF short story which made an impression on me as a young teen.
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