I couldnot leave. Unlike the mostly anthropomorphic creatures of theMiddle Country, it gave off no suggestion of feeling or thought at all. When they stopped moving, the mist rose around them, so that their legs vanished andthey seemed to be standing hip-deep in a cloud bank. The entomologist pulleddown the steps and Renie clambered into the snug cockpit.
Look, in case you've forgotten, we were about, oh,I'd guess thirty minutes ahead of that _Eciton_ swarm, and it's going to raise hell at the Hive ifwe don't warn them. I just _know_ it. The sun had cleared away a bit of the fog, but was itself still only directionless lightsomewhere behind the haze. Beside him, Fredericks was staringforlornly out at the passing riverbank, at the cabinets like a row of tall bluffs.
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