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By Andre Norton
Used to be Andas an android - or the rightful Emperor, held prisoner on planet whereas an android impersonated him at the Empire's throne international? was once Tallhasseee Mitford a latest archaeologist being affected by unusual delusions, or has an historic Egyptian ankh in some way hurled her character a long way again within the mists of time to a Nubian country the place she is now a warrior princess named Ashake, stuck up in a fight among the gods of Egypt? very various heroes within the grip of forces past keep an eye on, past comprehension, either destined to be the single desire of doomed civilisations...
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So submerged, with the water so thick, he could not see her, though the surface was roiled with movements. " Yolyos caught Andas by the upper arm and pulled him out of the pool. " Andas had to accept that as he squatted on the sandbank, using that grit to rub from his body the slimy deposit the water had left. But he kept watching the pool, wondering if he should plunge back in and try to bring her to the surface even against her will. She arose at last without his aid, her hair in dark strings about her head and shoulders, with none of the exuberance she had shown at the jungle pool on the unknown world.
Your mind, your two hands. " Andas thought that argument had little meaning—except it was true. He could not defend himself without knowing the enemy. "Just this—this ship has been used for illegal purposes. Of that we have simple proof. And where did Turpyn's chosen tape take us? To a base that was secret. Therefore—" But Andas had already fastened eagerly on the suggestion and wondered why he had been so thickwitted as not to deduce it for himself. " Why, that might solve so much. Then once more cold logic froze his first feeling of relief.
The court intrigues she mouthed about meant nothing. What did was that long tale of years he could not account for—the fact that here on Inyanga an Andas sat in power—an emperor who was—who must be—an android! Yet, had the stass at the prison kept him young? And if the Emperor had had an age-arrest injection, why the medics should know they were dealing with an android— "I am not," he said dully. He did not see the spark flare in her eyes. She watched him now with a small cruel smile, like that she had worn earlier when she had detected him in hiding.