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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Overlord of Colony Eight - -Author: Robert Silverberg - -Release Date: May 18, 2021 [eBook #65374] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OVERLORD OF COLONY EIGHT *** - - - - - Overlord Of Colony Eight - - By Robert Silverberg - - Reese returned to the colony expecting - a pleasant reunion; instead he found friends - ready to hunt him down like an alien beast.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1957 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Colony Eight on the _Damballa_ was a huddle of low plastic domes set -in a clearing of the jungle. It was also the most welcome sight Jim -Reese had seen in a month--the month since he'd quarreled with Lois and -struck out into the jungle alone. - -He had covered close to a thousand miles--all the way to Colony Seven, -the nearest of the 10 colonies Earth had planted on the jungle world. -Now he was returning, hoping his month's absence had healed the wounds -he and Lois had caused each other. She had had time to think things -over. So had he--and he still loved her. - -He saw one of the natives straggling through the jungle toward him and -grinned. It was drunken old Kuhli, a native who had been accidentally -made a drug addict by a well-meaning Terran doctor. Kuhli lived in a -murky fog and hung around Colony Eight because he had no place else to -go. - -Reese was happy to see a familiar face, even Kuhli's. He hailed the -alien. - -"Kuhli! Kuhli, you old devil! Where are you going?" He knew the native -rarely ventured into the jungle any more; his delicate sense of -direction had long since been blunted by drugs. - -The alien whirled uncertainly and fixed his bleary green eyes on Reese. -"Trouble, Earthman," he wheezed. "Go away. Away. Big trouble." - -Reese frowned. "What are you talking about?" - -Kuhli came near and rocked unsteadily on the pads of his seven-toed -feet. "Everyone crazy there. Not safe. Trouble, Earthman." He moaned -softly to himself. "Sad things happening." - -Reese glared at the alien; grasped him by his scaly shoulders and shook -him. "Speak up, Kuhli! Is this just another pipedream of yours or is -there something wrong in the Colony? I have to know!" - -The alien whined piteously. "Don't hurt Kuhli. Don't hurt. Trouble, -Earthman!" - -Reese noticed a pack slung over the creature's back. "What's in here?" - -"Mine! Mine! Don't touch!" - -Curiosity impelled Reese to turn the alien around and peer in the -bulging pack while the old man gibbered in fear. - -Reese whistled. The pack was brim-full of ampoules of -benzolurethrimine, the pain-killing drug to which Kuhli had been made -an addict. The alien had stumbled into the colony one day, his chest -slashed open by the talons of a _khaljek_-bird; the colony doctor -had administered the drug to ease his agony and only then discovered -benzolurethrimine was a powerful narcotic for the aliens. - -"Where'd you get all this stuff?" Reese demanded. - -"Took it. Needed it. Not going back to Colony any more." - -There was something doing there, all right. This was no pipedream of -Kuhli's--not when he was willing to steal a supply of drugs and strike -out on his own into the treacherous jungle. Reese tightened his lips -and, started to run toward the nearby colony at a dead trot. He hoped -Lois was all right; he'd never forgive himself for leaving her if -anything had happened to her. - - * * * * * - -He entered the circle of domes. No one seemed to be around. That was -peculiar. There should always be a few idling colonists resting up -before continuing their task of clearing the jungles. - -Finally he spotted Lloyd Kramer, one of his best friends. He and Kramer -had decided together to join and had come out to _Damballa_ on the same -ship. - -"Lloyd! Lloyd!" Reese ran toward the big man, who was standing stiffly -outside his hut, staring elsewhere. "Hey, Lloyd!" - -Kramer turned. Reese said, "I just saw old Kuhli heading through the -forest with a packload of benzo. He says there's some trouble in the -Colony. What's up? How's Lois? Is she all right?" - -A puzzled frown appeared on Kramer's face. "Who are you?" he said in a -deep rumbling, voice. "I do not recognize you." - -"What? You crazy, Lloyd? I'm Jim Reese!" - -"_Jim ... Reese?_" Kramer repeated the words as if they were some -totally alien name. "Where did you come from, Jim Reese?" - -"I--what the devil is this, Lloyd?" Reese backed away suspiciously. -"What's happened to you? Where is everyone?" - -"You do not know," Kramer said. "Therefore you were not here when the -conversion took place. Therefore I must capture you." - -He lunged. - -Reese got out of the way just as Kramer's six-four body came thundering -toward him. He had known Lloyd long enough to be aware of the big man's -fight-patterns; he could side-step easily enough. - -"Lloyd! You out of your head?" - -"You must be captured," Kramer repeated. He turned and swung his giant -fists. Reese managed to parry one blow but a massive right crashed -into his belly and knocked him gasping back against the thick bole -of a _ghive_ tree. He clung to the sticky bark for a second, sucking -in breath. Then, as Kramer advanced again, Reese yanked out his -hunting-knife. Kramer was unarmed. - -"Lloyd, I don't know what's gotten into you but if you take another -step closer to me I'm going to slice you up. You must be crazy!" - -Kramer drew back, staring in puzzlement at the gleaming saw-toothed -blade in Reese's hand. He froze some three yards away. - -He said aloud, "What should I do, Dr. Tersen? He has a knife." - -And in a cold, unfamiliar voice, he answered himself: "Keep him there -at all costs--your life, if necessary. I will send help." - -"Yes, Dr. Tersen," Kramer said in his own voice. - -Reese frowned. Tersen? He remembered someone of that name--some -scientist involved in a scandal a few years back on Earth. But what he -was doing here on _Damballa_ and what sort of control was he exerting -over Lloyd Kramer? - -"I am to keep you from escaping," Kramer said flatly. "Put the knife -away, Jim Reese." - -Reese glanced past Kramer and saw moving figures--colonists, coming -toward him. He recognized them but still there was something unfamiliar -about them. They moved stiffly. _Like so many zombies_, Reese thought. - -Sweat poured down his body. He didn't want to hurt Kramer, not even the -strangely-possessed Kramer before him. - -Stooping quickly, he picked up a handful of the soft, warm _Damballa_ -mud and hurled it into Kramer's face. The big man, blinded, spat out -mouthfuls of mud. Reese turned and ran. - -"After him!" Kramer rumbled. "He's getting away!" - -Reese heard a dozen pairs of feet behind him. He dodged back into the -jungle, felt a slimy trailer of vine slap across his face and plunged -into a swampy morass covered over with quivering _chulla_-ferns. - - * * * * * - -He crouched there for five minutes, ten, listening while the colonists -thrashed about searching for him. He felt chilled despite the tropical -warmth of the forest. - -Who was this Tersen? And what had he done to the people of Colony -Eight? To Lois...? - -He had to find out. Somehow, while he had been gone, Tersen had seized -control of the minds and bodies of his friends and fellow colonists. He -heard their voices--steely, unreal. - -"Any sign of him?" - -"No. He has vanished." - -"Dr. Tersen will punish us. We must find him." - -"He has a knife. We must be careful." - -"No. Dr. Tersen said to capture him even at the cost of our lives." - -Reese shuddered. He recognized those voices, or thought he did. Abel -Lester, Dick Fredrics, Chuck Hylan--men he had worked with and known -for years. Hunting him now, as if he were some wild _thruuv_ needed to -serve as food for the colony. - -Someone passed within three feet of his hiding place and moved on. -Reese was bathed in his own sweat. If he could only stay hidden until -they went away, then sneak back into the Colony and find out what had -happened, find out if Lois was all right-- - -A needle of pain shot up his leg. He gasped and tried to keep from -screaming. - -Another bright bolt of agony. Another. - -Needleworms! Boring up from the mucky depths of the swamp and -penetrating the soles of his boots! - -He cursed. The damnable creatures were everywhere. He went into a -little dance, trying to avoid their keen snouts, but there were dozens -of them, sensing a juicy meal. If he stayed here any longer he'd be -slowly eaten to death. - -Clutching his knife tightly he edged out of his shelter, looking -around. There was no one in sight; the searchers were beating through -the underbrush up ahead. - -He moved on tiptoe back toward the village. And suddenly the thick -corded arms of Lloyd Kramer shot around him from behind, pinioning him -in an unbreakable grip. The knife dropped from his hands. - -"All right!" Kramer called. "I've got him! Let's go back now." - - * * * * * - -Three men guarded him as he lay bound in one corner of the Colony -Administration Building. Lloyd Kramer, Abel Lester and Mark Cameron, -Lois' father. They had been facing him wordlessly for almost 15 -minutes. None of them would answer his questions--not even when he -asked Cameron whether Lois was all right. - -Suddenly the door opened and a tall, ascetically thin man entered. -Reese knew instantly from the cold set of his features and the fact -that his eyes, unlike those of the zombies, burnt with a hard flame of -intelligence, that this was Dr. Tersen. - -"You can go," Tersen said. - -The three guards nodded and left. Reese noticed that a tiny band of -bright metal encircled Tersen's forehead. - -The scientist looked down at Reese. "Are you a member of this colony?" -he asked. - -"Why should I tell you?" - -"I repeat, James Reese: are you a member of this colony?" - -"Yes," Reese said. "I've been away on a hunting trip the past month. -Who the devil are you?" - -"My name is John Tersen, formerly of Earth. You may have heard of me." - -"I remember some sort of trial," Reese said. "You were accused of -illegal experiments of some kind. You were banished from Earth." - -"Ah, yes. Precisely." A film of pain crossed Tersen's lean features. -"Exiled from my native world. That was six years ago--six years in -which I've worked alone, on an uncharted planetoid, preparing. Colony -Eight of _Damballa_ represents my first laboratory experiment. After -that, the other nine colonies--and then, Earth. I'll have repaid them -for what they did to me!" - -"Do you have this whole colony in your control?" Reese asked. - -"Yes. All but you--and you'll soon be under the beam too." - -_That means Lois too_, Reese thought. _What an idiot I was to go away -and leave her here alone!_ - -And then he realized it was lucky he had done so. If he had stayed -here, he'd probably be a zombie like all the rest. At least this way he -was a free agent and it was still possible to defeat Tersen--for the -time being. - -Something flashed brightly in Tersen's hand. A thin metallic -bracelet--of the same metal as the band around the scientist's forehead. - -"This is for you," Tersen said. "Since I can't readjust the generator -without losing control of all the others I've prepared a special -trinket for you. Let me slip it on you, Reese." - -Tersen reached for Reese's wrist. Reese twisted his body away. - -"Don't be coy," Tersen said, smiling bleakly. He slapped Reese and -seized his wrist. Despite Reese's desperate writhing Tersen managed to -force the bracelet over the man's wrist and clamp it shut. - -"There," Tersen said. "Now the whole village is under control." - -Reese was puzzled. He felt no different; evidently something had gone -wrong. But he did not intend to let Tersen know that. - -"We'll march on Colony Seven tonight," Tersen mused aloud. -"Everything's ready to begin the conquest." - -He stepped behind Reese and undid his bonds. Reese rose to his feet -stiffly, hoping he made a convincing zombie. He crossed the room toward -the door. - -"Join the others," Tersen ordered. - -"Yes, Dr. Tersen," Reese said in sepulchral tones. - - * * * * * - -Outside, he glanced around and saw several colonists some distance -away. He walked toward them, careful to maintain the stiff walk in case -Tersen were watching. - -Something had gone wrong with Tersen's bracelet because Reese -definitely was under no control. It was a lucky break; it allowed him -some extra time to discover what power Tersen held over the enslaved -colonists. And he could find Lois. - -The bracelet on his wrist gave no clue. It was just a thin band of -metal without ornament. Presumably Tersen had expected to exert some -kind of thought-control through it. - -None of the colonists wore bracelets of this sort. Therefore, Tersen -had some other means of controlling them. He had spoken of a -"generator." Perhaps he could find that while he remained at large. - -"Hello, Earthman. There is trouble here." - -Maintaining his stiffness, Reese turned. He saw Kuhli, the addict. The -pack he had been carrying was missing. - -"Why are you back?" Reese asked. - -"I need.... I need...." Kuhli gestured to his back. "I lost my pack. I -need...." He could not pronounce the name of the drug he craved but he -had been drawn back to the colony by desperate need. - -Reese began to say something--then he cut it short and started to run. - -"Lois! Lois!" - -The girl was walking across the clearing in the familiar stiff-legged -stride. Reese caught up with her in a moment or two, his heart -pounding. "Thank God you're all right!" he exclaimed. - -She stared at him. Her lovely face was void of all expression and her -hazel-grey eyes looked blankly at him. "Who are you?" she asked, as if -she were sleepwalking. - -"Why--I'm Jim! Are you under this dreadful thing, too? Yes, yes, of -course you must be. I...." - -She interrupted him--speaking in a deep, grotesque voice that sounded -more like Dr. Tersen's than her own. "Somehow this Reese is not under -control. He must be captured and put out of the way. Get him!" - -Reese realized that Tersen had been watching through Lois' eyes. Half -a dozen of the colonists were converging on him now. He turned and -started to run. - -They spread out in a loose ring around him and he saw that unless he -could dodge past them and escape into the forest, he was trapped. - -He dashed forward toward the nearest man--Chuck Hylan. Hylan was lean -and agile but Tersen's control left him stiff and awkward. He brought -his fists up and aimed a few wild punches at Reese. Reese ducked them -easily and smashed a hard right at Hylan. - -It was a blow that could have toppled a tree--but Hylan merely -staggered and stayed up. Reese saw that the control gave them extra -endurance. He'd get nowhere by fighting with them. Pushing Hylan aside, -Reese broke for the clearing. - -And froze. - -He heard Tersen's dry voice saying, "... must have been a short in the -wave canal. But that's taken care of now." - -The voice was not loud. It was in his mind. - -And he was unable to move. - - * * * * * - -It was a strange, unearthly experience to be a zombie. Part of Reese's -mind remained conscious. Part of him knew that Tersen had belatedly -achieved control through the bracelet on his wrist and that Reese was -no longer his body's master. He felt a presence in his mind. Tersen. -Tersen dictated his motions now. - -Stiffleggedly--and it was no sham, now--he turned or _was_ turned, and -walked back toward the rest of the group. Tersen had appeared and stood -there, icy eyes glittering at him. - -"I made the mistake of not testing you before I freed you," the -scientist said. "But I think the control is in effect now. We'll see." - -_Raise your right hand!_ came a sudden mental command. Reese felt his -right hand shoot above his head. He struggled to pull it down but it -was impossible. - -_Left hand!_ - -_Both hands!_ - -_Kneel on your left knee!_ - -Apparently Tersen was satisfied. He ordered Reese up and turned away. -His control was complete. - -"We march on Colony Seven tonight," Tersen announced again. - -The rest of that day was a dim blur for Jim Reese. He followed through -a series of dictated tasks, preparing for the raid on the colony. He -discovered now exactly what had happened to Colony Eight but there was -nothing at all he could do about it. - -Tersen had appeared about a week after Reese had quarrelled with Lois. -He had announced he was here to perform some experiments and asked the -Colony to let him stay for a month or so. The Colony had agreed. - -Tersen had proceeded to set up a dome and build his generator. It -operated on encephalographic principles and allowed him to control the -brains of all within its field at the time it was turned on. The Colony -had not discovered this until the day Tersen had switched the generator -on. From then on all were slaves. - -Since Reese had not been present when that happened he was not subject -to the generator field nor was the generator set up to control him. -Tersen had had a portable generator under experimental construction -and it was that which he had used to control Reese. It had failed, at -first, though Reese's clever act had deceived Tersen. But when the -scientist discovered Reese still was not under control he was able to -make a trifling adjustment that altered the situation. - -These things Reese found out by his contact with Tersen's mind. Contact -worked in two directions--but control in only one. - -Reese and the others readied the Colony for the attack on its -neighbors. Tersen planned to control all the 10 colonies on -_Damballa_--and then, building more generators, he would spread his -dominion to Earth, the planet that had driven him into exile. - - * * * * * - -But one person in Colony Eight was free from Tersen's control. One -person came and went as he pleased. - -Kuhli. The drug-sodden alien. - -Reese was standing stiffly before the medical commissary later that -day when Kuhli came out, his back once again laden with a packful -of benzolurethrimine ampoules. The alien was smiling happily in his -narcotic daze. - -He approached Reese and peered at him curiously out of eyes clouded -with drugs. "Earthman. Much trouble here. I leave again." - -Prisoner within his own skull, Reese longed to break Tersen's iron -control. But it was impossible. He stood stock-still while Kuhli stared -at him. - -The alien's blubbery mouth split in a pleased smile. "Pretty," he -crooned. "Pretty. I take." - -Reese's heart bounded in sudden hope. - -Kuhli's dim eyes were fixed on the shining bracelet on Reese's wrist! - -The alien was pawing his arm now, examining the trinket, exclaiming -little wordless cries of pleasure over it. Reese felt his body -breaking out in heavy sweat. If only Tersen wouldn't notice--! - -Kuhli began to slip the bracelet off. - -And Tersen detected it. His sudden, urgent thought came to Reese: _Stop -him! Don't let him remove the bracelet, Reese!_ - -Unable to resist, Reese started to draw his hand back, to bring his -other fist down on the alien's skull. But halfway through the action he -felt a shock like a heavy-voltage current ripping through him and knew -that he was free. The alien had removed the bracelet! - -Quickly Reese seized it, grabbing it from the alien's paws. Despite -Kuhli's protests, Reese hurled the bracelet as far into the underbrush -as he could. - -He grinned and patted the blubbering alien on one scaly shoulder. -"That's all right, Kuhli. Good boy, Kuhli. When this thing is over -remind me to get you a new bracelet." - -He began to run, moving with grim determination now. He was free -again--and now he knew where Tersen and his generator were located. He -didn't intend to fail a third time. - - * * * * * - -Tersen had set up his headquarters in one of the small domes near the -stream that ran past the colony. Blaster in hand, Reese ran to the -dome. - -Someone stood in the door. Not Tersen. - -Lois. - -"Don't go in there," she said--in her normal voice. "Tersen's in there." - -"I know." He stared at her. She didn't have the same zombie-like -appearance she had had earlier. "Get out of my way," he told her. "I'm -going in." - -She put her hand on his arm tenderly. "No Jim. Give me the gun. I've -broken out of his control. He doesn't know it yet. Let me go in -there--and I'll take him by surprise. He won't expect it when I blast -him down." - -A grin lit Reese's features. The voice was unmistakably Lois'. "Okay. -Great idea, darling. Here." - -He handed her his blaster and waited for her to go inside. But instead -she levelled the gun at him. - -"Lois! What is this--a trap?" - -Words came from her mouth in reply--words spoken in a deep, distorted -voice. "Well done. Now kill him." It was the voice of Dr. Tersen. - -Her finger tightened on the trigger as Reese stood frozen in utter -horror. Tersen had used a shrewd ruse--by pretending to have let Lois -escape his power he had gotten Reese to surrender his weapon. - -But Lois stood facing him without firing. Sweat broke out on her face. -She became deadly pale. - -"Fire!" Tersen urged, speaking through her mouth. "Shoot him!" - -"I--I can't," she said hesitantly, "I--love--him." - -The gun dropped from her hand. A moment later she fell in a crumpled -heap at Reese's feet. - -There was no time to examine her. He snatched up the blaster, stepped -over her fallen body and burst into the dome. - -A purple blast of energy seared the air above him and blew a hole above -the door. Instantly Reese dropped. - -A compact, whirring pile of machinery confronted him--and, huddling -behind an overturned bench, was Tersen aiming a blaster at him. Reese -flattened himself against the floor. - -Tersen fired and missed. Reese squeezed the stud of his own blaster and -ashed part of the table behind which Tersen cowered. - -He heard footsteps behind him. The colonists, still under Tersen's -domination, were coming to their master's aid. - -"You'd better give up," Tersen said. "They'll tear you to pieces." - -Reese's only reply was another bolt of energy that ripped away the wall -above Tersen's head. Tersen fired again; heat bathed Reese's cheek. - -The colonists were practically there now. He could hear them swarming -up the path to aid Tersen. He fired again-- - -Squarely into the generator. - -Livid blue flames flickered over the complex machinery for a moment. -Tubes melted: connections shorted out. An agonized scream came from -Tersen and he charged forward madly, blinded with rage. - -Reese didn't need to fire. He simply stepped into Tersen's path and -smashed him to the ground with a solid right. Then he turned and pumped -his remaining three charges into the burning generator. - -A moment later the colonists arrived--but not as Tersen's rescuers, -as his executioners. Reese got out of their way as the newly-freed -colonists rushed in. - -What was left of Tersen wasn't pretty. - -"It was awful," Lois sobbed, outside. "I knew what he was planning to -do and yet I couldn't help myself. I--was like a puppet on a string." - -"I know what it was like," Reese said. "He had me under control a while -too--until poor crazy Kuhli decided he liked the way my bracelet shone. -But you did help yourself--you didn't fire!" - -"Yes," the girl said weakly. "I struggled--and then somehow I won. I -snapped his hold and collapsed. And then--and then--" - -Reese smiled. "It's all over now," he said. "Tersen's dead and his -machine's smashed. It had one flaw--it couldn't control love." - -She looked up at him. "You won't go away any more, will you, Jim?" - -"That's a silly question," he said. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OVERLORD OF COLONY EIGHT *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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It was also the most welcome sight Jim -Reese had seen in a month—the month since he'd quarreled with Lois and -struck out into the jungle alone.</p> - -<p>He had covered close to a thousand miles—all the way to Colony Seven, -the nearest of the 10 colonies Earth had planted on the jungle world. -Now he was returning, hoping his month's absence had healed the wounds -he and Lois had caused each other. She had had time to think things -over. So had he—and he still loved her.</p> - -<p>He saw one of the natives straggling through the jungle toward him and -grinned. It was drunken old Kuhli, a native who had been accidentally -made a drug addict by a well-meaning Terran doctor. Kuhli lived in a -murky fog and hung around Colony Eight because he had no place else to -go.</p> - -<p>Reese was happy to see a familiar face, even Kuhli's. He hailed the -alien.</p> - -<p>"Kuhli! Kuhli, you old devil! Where are you going?" He knew the native -rarely ventured into the jungle any more; his delicate sense of -direction had long since been blunted by drugs.</p> - -<p>The alien whirled uncertainly and fixed his bleary green eyes on Reese. -"Trouble, Earthman," he wheezed. "Go away. Away. Big trouble."</p> - -<p>Reese frowned. "What are you talking about?"</p> - -<p>Kuhli came near and rocked unsteadily on the pads of his seven-toed -feet. "Everyone crazy there. Not safe. Trouble, Earthman." He moaned -softly to himself. "Sad things happening."</p> - -<p>Reese glared at the alien; grasped him by his scaly shoulders and shook -him. "Speak up, Kuhli! Is this just another pipedream of yours or is -there something wrong in the Colony? I have to know!"</p> - -<p>The alien whined piteously. "Don't hurt Kuhli. Don't hurt. Trouble, -Earthman!"</p> - -<p>Reese noticed a pack slung over the creature's back. "What's in here?"</p> - -<p>"Mine! Mine! Don't touch!"</p> - -<p>Curiosity impelled Reese to turn the alien around and peer in the -bulging pack while the old man gibbered in fear.</p> - -<p>Reese whistled. The pack was brim-full of ampoules of -benzolurethrimine, the pain-killing drug to which Kuhli had been made -an addict. The alien had stumbled into the colony one day, his chest -slashed open by the talons of a <i>khaljek</i>-bird; the colony doctor -had administered the drug to ease his agony and only then discovered -benzolurethrimine was a powerful narcotic for the aliens.</p> - -<p>"Where'd you get all this stuff?" Reese demanded.</p> - -<p>"Took it. Needed it. Not going back to Colony any more."</p> - -<p>There was something doing there, all right. This was no pipedream of -Kuhli's—not when he was willing to steal a supply of drugs and strike -out on his own into the treacherous jungle. Reese tightened his lips -and, started to run toward the nearby colony at a dead trot. He hoped -Lois was all right; he'd never forgive himself for leaving her if -anything had happened to her.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He entered the circle of domes. No one seemed to be around. That was -peculiar. There should always be a few idling colonists resting up -before continuing their task of clearing the jungles.</p> - -<p>Finally he spotted Lloyd Kramer, one of his best friends. He and Kramer -had decided together to join and had come out to <i>Damballa</i> on the same -ship.</p> - -<p>"Lloyd! Lloyd!" Reese ran toward the big man, who was standing stiffly -outside his hut, staring elsewhere. "Hey, Lloyd!"</p> - -<p>Kramer turned. Reese said, "I just saw old Kuhli heading through the -forest with a packload of benzo. He says there's some trouble in the -Colony. What's up? How's Lois? Is she all right?"</p> - -<p>A puzzled frown appeared on Kramer's face. "Who are you?" he said in a -deep rumbling, voice. "I do not recognize you."</p> - -<p>"What? You crazy, Lloyd? I'm Jim Reese!"</p> - -<p>"<i>Jim ... Reese?</i>" Kramer repeated the words as if they were some -totally alien name. "Where did you come from, Jim Reese?"</p> - -<p>"I—what the devil is this, Lloyd?" Reese backed away suspiciously. -"What's happened to you? Where is everyone?"</p> - -<p>"You do not know," Kramer said. "Therefore you were not here when the -conversion took place. Therefore I must capture you."</p> - -<p>He lunged.</p> - -<p>Reese got out of the way just as Kramer's six-four body came thundering -toward him. He had known Lloyd long enough to be aware of the big man's -fight-patterns; he could side-step easily enough.</p> - -<p>"Lloyd! You out of your head?"</p> - -<p>"You must be captured," Kramer repeated. He turned and swung his giant -fists. Reese managed to parry one blow but a massive right crashed -into his belly and knocked him gasping back against the thick bole -of a <i>ghive</i> tree. He clung to the sticky bark for a second, sucking -in breath. Then, as Kramer advanced again, Reese yanked out his -hunting-knife. Kramer was unarmed.</p> - -<p>"Lloyd, I don't know what's gotten into you but if you take another -step closer to me I'm going to slice you up. You must be crazy!"</p> - -<p>Kramer drew back, staring in puzzlement at the gleaming saw-toothed -blade in Reese's hand. He froze some three yards away.</p> - -<p>He said aloud, "What should I do, Dr. Tersen? He has a knife."</p> - -<p>And in a cold, unfamiliar voice, he answered himself: "Keep him there -at all costs—your life, if necessary. I will send help."</p> - -<p>"Yes, Dr. Tersen," Kramer said in his own voice.</p> - -<p>Reese frowned. Tersen? He remembered someone of that name—some -scientist involved in a scandal a few years back on Earth. But what he -was doing here on <i>Damballa</i> and what sort of control was he exerting -over Lloyd Kramer?</p> - -<p>"I am to keep you from escaping," Kramer said flatly. "Put the knife -away, Jim Reese."</p> - -<p>Reese glanced past Kramer and saw moving figures—colonists, coming -toward him. He recognized them but still there was something unfamiliar -about them. They moved stiffly. <i>Like so many zombies</i>, Reese thought.</p> - -<p>Sweat poured down his body. He didn't want to hurt Kramer, not even the -strangely-possessed Kramer before him.</p> - -<p>Stooping quickly, he picked up a handful of the soft, warm <i>Damballa</i> -mud and hurled it into Kramer's face. The big man, blinded, spat out -mouthfuls of mud. Reese turned and ran.</p> - -<p>"After him!" Kramer rumbled. "He's getting away!"</p> - -<p>Reese heard a dozen pairs of feet behind him. He dodged back into the -jungle, felt a slimy trailer of vine slap across his face and plunged -into a swampy morass covered over with quivering <i>chulla</i>-ferns.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He crouched there for five minutes, ten, listening while the colonists -thrashed about searching for him. He felt chilled despite the tropical -warmth of the forest.</p> - -<p>Who was this Tersen? And what had he done to the people of Colony -Eight? To Lois...?</p> - -<p>He had to find out. Somehow, while he had been gone, Tersen had seized -control of the minds and bodies of his friends and fellow colonists. He -heard their voices—steely, unreal.</p> - -<p>"Any sign of him?"</p> - -<p>"No. He has vanished."</p> - -<p>"Dr. Tersen will punish us. We must find him."</p> - -<p>"He has a knife. We must be careful."</p> - -<p>"No. Dr. Tersen said to capture him even at the cost of our lives."</p> - -<p>Reese shuddered. He recognized those voices, or thought he did. Abel -Lester, Dick Fredrics, Chuck Hylan—men he had worked with and known -for years. Hunting him now, as if he were some wild <i>thruuv</i> needed to -serve as food for the colony.</p> - -<p>Someone passed within three feet of his hiding place and moved on. -Reese was bathed in his own sweat. If he could only stay hidden until -they went away, then sneak back into the Colony and find out what had -happened, find out if Lois was all right—</p> - -<p>A needle of pain shot up his leg. He gasped and tried to keep from -screaming.</p> - -<p>Another bright bolt of agony. Another.</p> - -<p>Needleworms! Boring up from the mucky depths of the swamp and -penetrating the soles of his boots!</p> - -<p>He cursed. The damnable creatures were everywhere. He went into a -little dance, trying to avoid their keen snouts, but there were dozens -of them, sensing a juicy meal. If he stayed here any longer he'd be -slowly eaten to death.</p> - -<p>Clutching his knife tightly he edged out of his shelter, looking -around. There was no one in sight; the searchers were beating through -the underbrush up ahead.</p> - -<p>He moved on tiptoe back toward the village. And suddenly the thick -corded arms of Lloyd Kramer shot around him from behind, pinioning him -in an unbreakable grip. The knife dropped from his hands.</p> - -<p>"All right!" Kramer called. "I've got him! Let's go back now."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Three men guarded him as he lay bound in one corner of the Colony -Administration Building. Lloyd Kramer, Abel Lester and Mark Cameron, -Lois' father. They had been facing him wordlessly for almost 15 -minutes. None of them would answer his questions—not even when he -asked Cameron whether Lois was all right.</p> - -<p>Suddenly the door opened and a tall, ascetically thin man entered. -Reese knew instantly from the cold set of his features and the fact -that his eyes, unlike those of the zombies, burnt with a hard flame of -intelligence, that this was Dr. Tersen.</p> - -<p>"You can go," Tersen said.</p> - -<p>The three guards nodded and left. Reese noticed that a tiny band of -bright metal encircled Tersen's forehead.</p> - -<p>The scientist looked down at Reese. "Are you a member of this colony?" -he asked.</p> - -<p>"Why should I tell you?"</p> - -<p>"I repeat, James Reese: are you a member of this colony?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," Reese said. "I've been away on a hunting trip the past month. -Who the devil are you?"</p> - -<p>"My name is John Tersen, formerly of Earth. You may have heard of me."</p> - -<p>"I remember some sort of trial," Reese said. "You were accused of -illegal experiments of some kind. You were banished from Earth."</p> - -<p>"Ah, yes. Precisely." A film of pain crossed Tersen's lean features. -"Exiled from my native world. That was six years ago—six years in -which I've worked alone, on an uncharted planetoid, preparing. Colony -Eight of <i>Damballa</i> represents my first laboratory experiment. After -that, the other nine colonies—and then, Earth. I'll have repaid them -for what they did to me!"</p> - -<p>"Do you have this whole colony in your control?" Reese asked.</p> - -<p>"Yes. All but you—and you'll soon be under the beam too."</p> - -<p><i>That means Lois too</i>, Reese thought. <i>What an idiot I was to go away -and leave her here alone!</i></p> - -<p>And then he realized it was lucky he had done so. If he had stayed -here, he'd probably be a zombie like all the rest. At least this way he -was a free agent and it was still possible to defeat Tersen—for the -time being.</p> - -<p>Something flashed brightly in Tersen's hand. A thin metallic -bracelet—of the same metal as the band around the scientist's forehead.</p> - -<p>"This is for you," Tersen said. "Since I can't readjust the generator -without losing control of all the others I've prepared a special -trinket for you. Let me slip it on you, Reese."</p> - -<p>Tersen reached for Reese's wrist. Reese twisted his body away.</p> - -<p>"Don't be coy," Tersen said, smiling bleakly. He slapped Reese and -seized his wrist. Despite Reese's desperate writhing Tersen managed to -force the bracelet over the man's wrist and clamp it shut.</p> - -<p>"There," Tersen said. "Now the whole village is under control."</p> - -<p>Reese was puzzled. He felt no different; evidently something had gone -wrong. But he did not intend to let Tersen know that.</p> - -<p>"We'll march on Colony Seven tonight," Tersen mused aloud. -"Everything's ready to begin the conquest."</p> - -<p>He stepped behind Reese and undid his bonds. Reese rose to his feet -stiffly, hoping he made a convincing zombie. He crossed the room toward -the door.</p> - -<p>"Join the others," Tersen ordered.</p> - -<p>"Yes, Dr. Tersen," Reese said in sepulchral tones.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Outside, he glanced around and saw several colonists some distance -away. He walked toward them, careful to maintain the stiff walk in case -Tersen were watching.</p> - -<p>Something had gone wrong with Tersen's bracelet because Reese -definitely was under no control. It was a lucky break; it allowed him -some extra time to discover what power Tersen held over the enslaved -colonists. And he could find Lois.</p> - -<p>The bracelet on his wrist gave no clue. It was just a thin band of -metal without ornament. Presumably Tersen had expected to exert some -kind of thought-control through it.</p> - -<p>None of the colonists wore bracelets of this sort. Therefore, Tersen -had some other means of controlling them. He had spoken of a -"generator." Perhaps he could find that while he remained at large.</p> - -<p>"Hello, Earthman. There is trouble here."</p> - -<p>Maintaining his stiffness, Reese turned. He saw Kuhli, the addict. The -pack he had been carrying was missing.</p> - -<p>"Why are you back?" Reese asked.</p> - -<p>"I need.... I need...." Kuhli gestured to his back. "I lost my pack. I -need...." He could not pronounce the name of the drug he craved but he -had been drawn back to the colony by desperate need.</p> - -<p>Reese began to say something—then he cut it short and started to run.</p> - -<p>"Lois! Lois!"</p> - -<p>The girl was walking across the clearing in the familiar stiff-legged -stride. Reese caught up with her in a moment or two, his heart -pounding. "Thank God you're all right!" he exclaimed.</p> - -<p>She stared at him. Her lovely face was void of all expression and her -hazel-grey eyes looked blankly at him. "Who are you?" she asked, as if -she were sleepwalking.</p> - -<p>"Why—I'm Jim! Are you under this dreadful thing, too? Yes, yes, of -course you must be. I...."</p> - -<p>She interrupted him—speaking in a deep, grotesque voice that sounded -more like Dr. Tersen's than her own. "Somehow this Reese is not under -control. He must be captured and put out of the way. Get him!"</p> - -<p>Reese realized that Tersen had been watching through Lois' eyes. Half -a dozen of the colonists were converging on him now. He turned and -started to run.</p> - -<p>They spread out in a loose ring around him and he saw that unless he -could dodge past them and escape into the forest, he was trapped.</p> - -<p>He dashed forward toward the nearest man—Chuck Hylan. Hylan was lean -and agile but Tersen's control left him stiff and awkward. He brought -his fists up and aimed a few wild punches at Reese. Reese ducked them -easily and smashed a hard right at Hylan.</p> - -<p>It was a blow that could have toppled a tree—but Hylan merely -staggered and stayed up. Reese saw that the control gave them extra -endurance. He'd get nowhere by fighting with them. Pushing Hylan aside, -Reese broke for the clearing.</p> - -<p>And froze.</p> - -<p>He heard Tersen's dry voice saying, "... must have been a short in the -wave canal. But that's taken care of now."</p> - -<p>The voice was not loud. It was in his mind.</p> - -<p>And he was unable to move.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was a strange, unearthly experience to be a zombie. Part of Reese's -mind remained conscious. Part of him knew that Tersen had belatedly -achieved control through the bracelet on his wrist and that Reese was -no longer his body's master. He felt a presence in his mind. Tersen. -Tersen dictated his motions now.</p> - -<p>Stiffleggedly—and it was no sham, now—he turned or <i>was</i> turned, and -walked back toward the rest of the group. Tersen had appeared and stood -there, icy eyes glittering at him.</p> - -<p>"I made the mistake of not testing you before I freed you," the -scientist said. "But I think the control is in effect now. We'll see."</p> - -<p><i>Raise your right hand!</i> came a sudden mental command. Reese felt his -right hand shoot above his head. He struggled to pull it down but it -was impossible.</p> - -<p><i>Left hand!</i></p> - -<p><i>Both hands!</i></p> - -<p><i>Kneel on your left knee!</i></p> - -<p>Apparently Tersen was satisfied. He ordered Reese up and turned away. -His control was complete.</p> - -<p>"We march on Colony Seven tonight," Tersen announced again.</p> - -<p>The rest of that day was a dim blur for Jim Reese. He followed through -a series of dictated tasks, preparing for the raid on the colony. He -discovered now exactly what had happened to Colony Eight but there was -nothing at all he could do about it.</p> - -<p>Tersen had appeared about a week after Reese had quarrelled with Lois. -He had announced he was here to perform some experiments and asked the -Colony to let him stay for a month or so. The Colony had agreed.</p> - -<p>Tersen had proceeded to set up a dome and build his generator. It -operated on encephalographic principles and allowed him to control the -brains of all within its field at the time it was turned on. The Colony -had not discovered this until the day Tersen had switched the generator -on. From then on all were slaves.</p> - -<p>Since Reese had not been present when that happened he was not subject -to the generator field nor was the generator set up to control him. -Tersen had had a portable generator under experimental construction -and it was that which he had used to control Reese. It had failed, at -first, though Reese's clever act had deceived Tersen. But when the -scientist discovered Reese still was not under control he was able to -make a trifling adjustment that altered the situation.</p> - -<p>These things Reese found out by his contact with Tersen's mind. Contact -worked in two directions—but control in only one.</p> - -<p>Reese and the others readied the Colony for the attack on its -neighbors. Tersen planned to control all the 10 colonies on -<i>Damballa</i>—and then, building more generators, he would spread his -dominion to Earth, the planet that had driven him into exile.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But one person in Colony Eight was free from Tersen's control. One -person came and went as he pleased.</p> - -<p>Kuhli. The drug-sodden alien.</p> - -<p>Reese was standing stiffly before the medical commissary later that -day when Kuhli came out, his back once again laden with a packful -of benzolurethrimine ampoules. The alien was smiling happily in his -narcotic daze.</p> - -<p>He approached Reese and peered at him curiously out of eyes clouded -with drugs. "Earthman. Much trouble here. I leave again."</p> - -<p>Prisoner within his own skull, Reese longed to break Tersen's iron -control. But it was impossible. He stood stock-still while Kuhli stared -at him.</p> - -<p>The alien's blubbery mouth split in a pleased smile. "Pretty," he -crooned. "Pretty. I take."</p> - -<p>Reese's heart bounded in sudden hope.</p> - -<p>Kuhli's dim eyes were fixed on the shining bracelet on Reese's wrist!</p> - -<p>The alien was pawing his arm now, examining the trinket, exclaiming -little wordless cries of pleasure over it. Reese felt his body -breaking out in heavy sweat. If only Tersen wouldn't notice—!</p> - -<p>Kuhli began to slip the bracelet off.</p> - -<p>And Tersen detected it. His sudden, urgent thought came to Reese: <i>Stop -him! Don't let him remove the bracelet, Reese!</i></p> - -<p>Unable to resist, Reese started to draw his hand back, to bring his -other fist down on the alien's skull. But halfway through the action he -felt a shock like a heavy-voltage current ripping through him and knew -that he was free. The alien had removed the bracelet!</p> - -<p>Quickly Reese seized it, grabbing it from the alien's paws. Despite -Kuhli's protests, Reese hurled the bracelet as far into the underbrush -as he could.</p> - -<p>He grinned and patted the blubbering alien on one scaly shoulder. -"That's all right, Kuhli. Good boy, Kuhli. When this thing is over -remind me to get you a new bracelet."</p> - -<p>He began to run, moving with grim determination now. He was free -again—and now he knew where Tersen and his generator were located. He -didn't intend to fail a third time.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tersen had set up his headquarters in one of the small domes near the -stream that ran past the colony. Blaster in hand, Reese ran to the -dome.</p> - -<p>Someone stood in the door. Not Tersen.</p> - -<p>Lois.</p> - -<p>"Don't go in there," she said—in her normal voice. "Tersen's in there."</p> - -<p>"I know." He stared at her. She didn't have the same zombie-like -appearance she had had earlier. "Get out of my way," he told her. "I'm -going in."</p> - -<p>She put her hand on his arm tenderly. "No Jim. Give me the gun. I've -broken out of his control. He doesn't know it yet. Let me go in -there—and I'll take him by surprise. He won't expect it when I blast -him down."</p> - -<p>A grin lit Reese's features. The voice was unmistakably Lois'. "Okay. -Great idea, darling. Here."</p> - -<p>He handed her his blaster and waited for her to go inside. But instead -she levelled the gun at him.</p> - -<p>"Lois! What is this—a trap?"</p> - -<p>Words came from her mouth in reply—words spoken in a deep, distorted -voice. "Well done. Now kill him." It was the voice of Dr. Tersen.</p> - -<p>Her finger tightened on the trigger as Reese stood frozen in utter -horror. Tersen had used a shrewd ruse—by pretending to have let Lois -escape his power he had gotten Reese to surrender his weapon.</p> - -<p>But Lois stood facing him without firing. Sweat broke out on her face. -She became deadly pale.</p> - -<p>"Fire!" Tersen urged, speaking through her mouth. "Shoot him!"</p> - -<p>"I—I can't," she said hesitantly, "I—love—him."</p> - -<p>The gun dropped from her hand. A moment later she fell in a crumpled -heap at Reese's feet.</p> - -<p>There was no time to examine her. He snatched up the blaster, stepped -over her fallen body and burst into the dome.</p> - -<p>A purple blast of energy seared the air above him and blew a hole above -the door. Instantly Reese dropped.</p> - -<p>A compact, whirring pile of machinery confronted him—and, huddling -behind an overturned bench, was Tersen aiming a blaster at him. Reese -flattened himself against the floor.</p> - -<p>Tersen fired and missed. Reese squeezed the stud of his own blaster and -ashed part of the table behind which Tersen cowered.</p> - -<p>He heard footsteps behind him. The colonists, still under Tersen's -domination, were coming to their master's aid.</p> - -<p>"You'd better give up," Tersen said. "They'll tear you to pieces."</p> - -<p>Reese's only reply was another bolt of energy that ripped away the wall -above Tersen's head. Tersen fired again; heat bathed Reese's cheek.</p> - -<p>The colonists were practically there now. He could hear them swarming -up the path to aid Tersen. He fired again—</p> - -<p>Squarely into the generator.</p> - -<p>Livid blue flames flickered over the complex machinery for a moment. -Tubes melted: connections shorted out. An agonized scream came from -Tersen and he charged forward madly, blinded with rage.</p> - -<p>Reese didn't need to fire. He simply stepped into Tersen's path and -smashed him to the ground with a solid right. Then he turned and pumped -his remaining three charges into the burning generator.</p> - -<p>A moment later the colonists arrived—but not as Tersen's rescuers, -as his executioners. Reese got out of their way as the newly-freed -colonists rushed in.</p> - -<p>What was left of Tersen wasn't pretty.</p> - -<p>"It was awful," Lois sobbed, outside. "I knew what he was planning to -do and yet I couldn't help myself. I—was like a puppet on a string."</p> - -<p>"I know what it was like," Reese said. "He had me under control a while -too—until poor crazy Kuhli decided he liked the way my bracelet shone. -But you did help yourself—you didn't fire!"</p> - -<p>"Yes," the girl said weakly. "I struggled—and then somehow I won. I -snapped his hold and collapsed. And then—and then—"</p> - -<p>Reese smiled. "It's all over now," he said. "Tersen's dead and his -machine's smashed. It had one flaw—it couldn't control love."</p> - -<p>She looked up at him. 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