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The reeyser of dust

Now, the big ’lighter swerved left and its rock ballast scraped the side of another large rock on the plain Sparks flehere the rocks met and Murdoch saw a line of fire spurt upward to the ’lighter which exploded in a flare of glowing yellow Bits of the orange bag and a cloud of fine blue dust drifted and sailed all around

The explosion ignited a wild frenzy of action on the plain The other bags dropped their captives and soared upward The de to catch the rehter Slower creatures such as the Spinnerets crept toward fallen rags of the orange bag

And when it was over, the demons sped away or burrowed into the plain as was the particular habit of each

Murdoch methodically described this into his recorder

When it was done, he scanned the plain once hters had soared away Not a denaled for a replacement to come up, then he headed back toward Lab One and the Garden As he ht about what he had seen and recorded The visual record would go to Lewis and later to Oakes Leould edit the verbal observations, adding his own comments

What was it I saw and recorded out there?

Try as he ht to understand the behavior of the Pandoran creatures, Murdoch could not do it

Lewis is right We should just wipe theht of Lewis, Murdoch asked hiency at the Redoubt would keep the ht be dead No one was completely immune to the threats of Pandora - not even Lewis If Leere gon

Murdoch tried to iine himself elevated to a new position of power under Oakes The ie would not form