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He had been considering the technical aspects rather than the practical ones. "You're right!" he
flashed, chagrined. "And even Mattermission won't save them if the enhancement of the lines required
for it comes from equipment set up here or on Planet Band. The Monsters will simply destroy the
equipment. It's no answer after all."
"What's needed is something that can really stop the Monsters-like a huge magnetic field that bollixes
up all Monster equipment."
"Nothing like that here," Rondl said regretfully. "This technology can't affect Monster equipment at
all. Only small-mass, magnetic-sensitive creatures like the Bands can use it. Monsters would require
centuries to gear to this refinement, and even then they could never use it to transport anything
Monster-size. Mail service is about its best Monster application."
"You mean Monsters can't actually use this Site?" she asked, amazed.
"Not to enhance Monster power. This is strictly a small-mass technology, like the magnetic lines the
Bands have already derived. For Bands it's wonderful, and scientifically it's as sophisticated as
anything we know of; for Monsters it just doesn't work."
"Because they're Monsters," she said.
"Because they're Monsters. Fittingly."
"But then the Monsters have no reason to take this Site! This whole invasion is wasted effort for
them."
"Ironic, but true. The Monsters will destroy a superior species, commit sapienocide, for something
they can't even use. If only they had known it at the outset!" He paused, reflecting. "That must be why
the Bellatrixians weren't interested. They surely had located this Site in the course of their dealings
with the Bands. They installed these lights, after all. They knew the Site was useless to their kind-to
the kind of creature who needs heavy spaceships to travel between planets. That includes the great
majority of all sapient species. Any of them who investigated in past centuries or millennia would
have discovered this. Only the Solarians bulled ahead without reconnoitering to be certain the Site
would be worth their own possible bloodshed."
"So all we need to do is tell the Monsters, and they'll go home. Not because they care for the
preservation of the Bands, but because they never spend energy without promise of immediate
material gain."
"I think so!" he agreed, realizing. "We should have done it your way at the outset. All this mischief
with Sphere Bellatrix, all the slaughter of Bands could have been avoided."
"You'd better inform the Monsters now," Tangt said.
"No good. I have ruined my credibility by lying to my employer. You will have to tell them the truth;
you never knowingly deceived them. Their interrogation will exonerate you, and so they will believe
you."
"Perhaps so," she flashed after a pause. "But they will suspect what I suspect. You lied to me before;
why should I believe you now?"
"Because I'm telling the truth now!"
"How convenient. If this Site were a bonanza for Monsters, would you tell me that? Do you expect
me to shill for you a second time? You know the truth, whatever it is. Only a direct interrogation of
you will convince them-or me." Her flashes had an adamantine sparkle of anger.
He had ruined his credibility with her, too. He had, in effect, scorned her, though their objective was
the same, and he knew females could react very strongly to this sort of thing. If only he had been sure
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of her before! "At this stage, seeing the Site useless to the Bands in the existing circumstance, I'd have
to turn it over to the Monsters regardless. But as it happens-"
"I trusted you before, and was deceived. I can't afford to trust you again. You must be up to
something, and I'm afraid whatever it is will cost the Bands a lot more than the truth."
What infernal mischief his original lie was making! Rondl heartily wished he had stayed with the
truth. "What could I be up to?"
"I'm working on that. You want me to tell the Monsters something that will bring them right here in
force. You refuse to go to them yourself, despite the fact that they could have the truth from you as
readily as from me, using special interrogatory techniques. Now why should that be? What could I do
that you could not?"
"You could bring them here to see for themselves much faster than I could! Deep interrogation takes
time. You-"
"Since you obviously think in terms of traps, and the nature of the trap is in your mind, not mine-"
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