_And if there is, what then? I'm still more than half a Khazaki. Can we
live together in the great civilization I hardly comprehend?_
_It was simpler when Janazik and I were warring over the planet ...
Janazik! I wonder if two beings of the same race could ever know as
close a friendship as that between us two aliens. We've fought and
laughed and sung together, we've saved each other's lives, sweated and
suffered and been afraid, together. We know each other as we will never
know any other being._
_Well, it passes. We'll always remain close friends, I suppose. But the
old comradeship--I'll have to give that up._
_But Ellen--_