A blast of thought broke into their minds. It blazed a warning
signal in vivid, incandescent pictures, and in roaring sound. It
said, in numerous and tumultuous manners, Stop where you are--keep
out--restricted, confidential, top-secret territory!
Grey jerked his head around. He stared for one astounded moment at the
Canopan officer.
Then he was walking out to the waiting helicopter, the palm of his hand
moist as he tightly held one of Joe's tentacles.
The people who ran a war were not always the obvious ones, he thought.