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like Elijah; I had to stand still and wait."
"No use worrying over what might have been, Rayne said.
"Yes, I guess not. Listen, Elijah, will you help me by going one way while I go the other and tell people
how to handle these things? Otherwise, there's going to be lots more like this poor woman. The one with
the broken bones had been tossed against a box by a big hexapod rearing up and using its front pair of
appendages like hands to grab the woman and throw her like a rag doll. Her outstretched arms had
shattered when she attempted to save her body from being hurt worse as she slammed into the side of
the box.
"Sure. And if I can find anyone who'll stay and watch, and a hexapod that will cooperate, I'll give them a
demonstration."
Lyda waved consent and headed toward the column. Behind her, both Elijah and Rayne grinned at each
other, seeing her going in the direction where she knew Gavin was located.
She found him standing between two medium-sized hexapods with a hand on each of them, stroking
their crests and talking to a wary collection of men, woman and a few children.
"See, they're not dangerous; in fact, they like to be petted. You just have to move slow and let them get
used to you. Come on now, some of you try it; it's the only way to stop them from attacking."
One little eight year old girl wiggled out of her keeper's grasp and ran toward Gavin.
"Slow! he cautioned. Take it slowly, Merrilyn."
The girl slowed down and stopped beside one of the animals while Gavin kept his hands on their crests.
She reached up and began stroking it, then laughed as she felt the rumbling stir her body like her daddy's
old massage chair when he let her sit in it.
"What's his name? Merrilyn asked.
"I call this one Tweedledee and this one Tweedledum. Dee and Dum for short. Gavin saw Lyda
watching him. He nodded with a gladdened expression, then winked at her. Lyda smiled back at him,
feeling the anxiety ease from her mind at seeing him safe and well.
"Can I ride one of them? the girl asked.
"Not yet, Gavin told her. Just pet them at first and remember, always move slowly when you're around
them. And never run, no matter how big they are. Who's next?"
One by one, most of the band that had gathered around him came cautiously forward and touched
Gavin's pets. As quickly as they were satisfied, Lyda picked several of them who had shown the most
confidence and asked them to go to the nearby columns and show other people how to handle the
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animals. She waited until the rest had finished, then stroked them briefly herself. She looked around.
Everyone had either gone or was going. She stood on tiptoe and gave Gavin a brief kiss. Please help
everyone as much as you can, Gavin. Show them they won't get hurt so long as they're gentle with the
creatures. I need to see what else is happening and what else we can do for the people who have been
hurt."
"Sure, Ly uh, Miss Brightner. I'll take Dee and Dum around with me. That ought to help. Come on,
Merrilyn. You can be my assistant."
"I can?"
"Sure. You were the bravest person here. You came first."
Merrilyn beamed.
Lyda began counting heads and getting the column's people organized, what remained of them. After
that, she would see to the other groups in the confederacy.
* * * *
The carnage had been horrible. Many sleep periods later, some of which she had skipped in order to
keep their little society organized and help with the wounded, Lyda met with the other surviving leaders.
Only half of them were still alive. Like the good people they were, many of them had insinuated
themselves between the creatures and those of their charges who had aggravated the suddenly appearing
animals. Luckily, Lyda had spread Gavin's discovery of how to tame the little tray-dwelling hexies in the
days before the big ones were pushed into the environment by the aliens. Some, like herself, had either
consciously remembered, or extrapolated the knowledge of Gavin's techniques to the bigger hexapods.
"There's still plenty of the pods roaming around, Miss Brightner, and some people just can't make
themselves face them, especially the big ones. They run, and if it's been antagonized in the past, it will
take off after them. They don't always kill, but they hurt and maim and you know we have no
painkillers and damn little in the way of anything to set bones or sew up gashes. The woman speaking
was Savella Meister, a competent former nurse who had stepped in to replace the wounded leader of her
column's community. He was still alive, but in great pain and unable to move about.
"We just have to keep trying, Lyda said. And somehow, we've got to stop those bands on the other
side who have devised weapons and are killing the hexapods for the meat or because they still think
they're dangerous. That's just making it worse for the rest of us."
"How can we stop them? We can barely take care of ourselves right now."
Lyda had brought Gavin with her as her resident hexapod expert. She turned to him. Gavin, do you
have any ideas? He had just returned from a days-long expedition to other columns, spreading the word
of how to tame the hexapods.
"I learned something that might be useful, but... He closed his mouth in a firm line and a pensive
expression formed on his face, the one Lyda found he wore when different thoughts were conflicting.
...well, if you make real good friends with a pod, it will fight other pods for you. But I don't like it and I
don't think they like it either. Afterward, their rumble isn't nearly as obvious and you get the impression
that they've done something that goes against their grain. Frankly, we still know so little about them yet
that I would be hesitant to use that approach."
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