Malovar rose. He lingered in the doorway. "I have come to regard you as
a friend, the only human I have ever known whom I was willing to call
by that name. I should regret very much losing my human friend."
"Sire--"
"But my regret will not stay my hand at the time of the testing!"
His lone elder following him, Malovar was gone into the Martian night.