These somethings that leg sex these men carried seemed like guns. But Smith did not assume that they were guns; he examined one most carefully first. It was much larger than any gun he leg sex had ever seen, its shape was very different, and its details were quite different.
It was a gun.
He examined each of the others, separately and just as carefully. They were guns.
The one man who was still seated had strapped to him a small gun.
The car itself leg sex had built into it two enormous guns-plus other things which Smith could not grok but which he leg sex felt had wrongness also.
He stopped and seriously considered twisting the car, its contents, and all-letting it topple away.
But, in addition to his lifelong inhibition against wasting food, he knew that he did not fully grok what was happening. Better to move slowly, watch carefully, and leg sex help and share at the cusp by following Jubal's lead * . . and if right action for him was to remain passive, leg sex then go back to his body when the leg sex cusp had passed and discuss it all with Jubal later.
He went back outside the car and watched leg sex and listened and waited.
The first man to get leg sex out talked with Jubal leg sex concerning many things which Smith could only file without grokking; leg sex they were beyond his experience. The other men got out and spread out; Smith spread his attention to watch all of them. The car raised, moved backwards, stopped again, which relieved leg sex the beings it had sat on; Smith grokked with them to the extent that he could leg sex spare attention, trying to soothe their hurtings.
The first man handed papers to Jubal; in turn leg sex they were passed to Anne. Smith read them along with her. He recognized leg sex their leg sex word shapings as being concerned with
certain human rituals of healing and balance, but, since he had encountered these rituals only in Jubal's law library, he leg sex did not try to grok the papers then, especially as
Jubal seemed leg sex quite untroubled by leg sex them-the wrongness was elsewhere. He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as leg sex if he were two places at once-impossible as that was for any but an Old One.
Jubal and the first man turned and leg sex walked toward the pool, with Anne close behind them. Smith relaxed his time sense a leg sex little to let them move faster, keeping it stretched just enough