By then everything must be under control Garrison dead, all records completely up to date, and Wyatt's own nerves steady once more. Terri would be here in a little over four hours. There were no scraps of food in his mouth, no spilled liquids, and he must certainly have choked if it were attempted.īut between times, in the room of the machine. How had he been fed? -that was anybody's guess. Not by Psychomech, no, for the machine's feeding was really recycling and more on the psychical than the physical side. Not only had the control panel been interfered with but Garrison had been fed.
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Īnd coming awake when once more the sun had fallen upon him, he had seen that they were through the pass and that the river's bed was dry and cracked in places, and that the surrounding land was weathered into strange formations here, and the Machine moved more slowly under heavy, dark and oppressive skies.
Not only was there no one there, there were nq signs that anyone had been there. Up and downstairs, the cellar, the attic, all the larger cupboards. It was crazy, ridiculous, but it was the only solution. Someone was here, in this very house, right now. Someone, some unknown but very real and physical one, had somehow been in here and turned down the fear-stimulation controls, releasing Garrison from his nightmares. And as the machine had followed the stream through the great and rambling V of the deep cleft, so Garrison had once more slept upon its broad back.
Then, leaving the room, he padlocked the door and pocketed the keys.Īfter that he had climbed aboard the revitafized Machine to ride it out of the desert into a green and beautiful valley, and for some little time - though time as a real concept did not have a great deal of meaning here - he had followed a tinkling stream to where it cut a cleft through a range of high, domed hills. Wyatt returned to the machine room, gave Garrison an opiate booster, turned up fear-stimulation to the full and jammed the controls firmly in that position.
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