| Men were crowding about Grim, clean-cut, determined-looking Earthmen. |
| The Earthmen were pitifully few, only thirty of them, and wretchedly armed. |
| Meanwhile, high in the heavens above Tara, six Earthmen blasted into the flaming brilliance of the sun star. |
| The two Earthmen stopped short, horror-struck at what they saw. |
| Even this ground you hold only on the sufferance of the Earthmen. |
| They staggered and trembled in every shaking limb, heedless now of the Earthmen. |
