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Chapter 4 Adam smiled. Vega smiled also, but Adam had been “nec- tared” beyond wayward emotions which might overpower him, so he proceeded in thought and conversation to probe into those issues that all thinkers have wrestled with but never fully solved. He saw in reflection the seething activity of earth and earthlings. Brothers were ranting and fuming over such small objectives, all of them in error. He wanted so much to call his brother earthmen to come and listen, but how could he? He could, he believed, set them all on a true and positive course at once, but who would listen and believe? Also, he suddenly remembered he had only seven months to live. Seven months, when seven years would not 1 coe . 1 However, he thought, never mind earthmen. There were more questions to be asked; questions to which he already had the nuclei of answers within his own mind. He continued his queries. “Vega, do you mind if I ask you why you refer to what you so loyally term ‘superiors? I don’t like the sound of the word. To me it denotes a preferred side and a rejected side of life. We on earth have struggled for centuries to bring democracy into fulfillment. We have not succeeded, as yet. But you, and your society—how can evolved ones such as you use those words? If there is a superior side there must be an inferior side. Is that not so? It strikes a discordant note to my senses.” For the first time, Vega looked at Adam the way he had first longed to see her look at him. Her eyes assumed a soft pensiveness, and her voice mellowed into a _ romantic subtleness. Cosmic womanhood whispered its echoes in her every aspect. Her beauty reached the zenith of what to an earth- and her voice into romantic 61 VEGA ALERTS ADAM be sufficient to make even a start!