Chapter 25

“I’m convinced of it, for one reason in particular. Notice that it says specifically that the visitors _stunned_ the natives. Now that thought is absolutely foreign to all Osnomian nature—when they strike they kill, and always have. Now if that myth has come down through so many generations without having that ‘stunned’ changed to ‘killed’, I’m willing to bet a few weeks of time that the rest of it came down fairly straight, too. Of course, what they had may not have been the zone of force as we know it, but it mus…