Blish, James - Seedling Stars 4 - Watershed

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THE SEEDLING STARS

JAMES BLISH

BOOK FOUR

WATERSHED

The murmurs of discontent - Capt. Gorbel, being a military man,

thought of it as "disaffection" - among the crew of the R.S.S. Inde-

feasible had reached the point where they could no longer be ig-

nored, well before the ship had come within fifty light years of its

objective.

Sooner or later, Gorbel thought, sooner or later this idiotic seal-

creature is going to notice them.

Capt. Gorbel wasn't sure whether he would be sorry or glad

when the Adapted Man caught on. In a way, it would make things

easier. But it would be an uncomfortable moment, not only for Ho-

qqueah and the rest of the pantrope team, but for Gorbel himself.

Maybe it would be better to keep sitting on the safety valve until

Hoqqueah and the other Altarians were put off on - what was its

name again? Oh yes. Earth. But the crew plainly wasn't going to let

Gorbel put it off that long.

As for Hoqqueah, he didn't appear to have a noticing center any-

where in his brain. He was as little discommoded by the emotional

undertow as he was by the thin and frigid air the Rigellian crew

maintained inside the battlecraft. Secure in his coat of warm blub-

ber, his eyes brown, liquid and merry, he sat in the forward green-

house for most of each ship's day, watching the growth of the star

Sol in the black skies ahead.

And he talked. Gods of all stars, how he talked! Capt. Gorbel al-

ready knew more about the ancient - the very ancient history of the

seeding program than he had had any. Desire to know, but there

was still more coming. Nor was the seeding program Hoqqueah's

sole subject. The Colonization Council delegate had had a vertical

education, one which cut in a narrow shaft through many different

fields of specialization in contrast to Corbel's own training, which

had been spread horizontally over the whole subject of spaceflight

without more than touching anything else.

Hoqqueah seemed to be making a project of enlarging the Cap-

tain's horizons, whether he wanted them enlarged or not. "Take

agriculture," he was saying at the moment. "This planet we're to

seed provides an excellent argument for taking the long view of farm

policy. There used to be jungles there; it was very fertile. But the

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