I flashed a light into it. They touched me as if they regarded me as so much lifeless matter to be manipulated as impersonally as machinery. Archie Macdougal, Chief Jetman, was an old friend, both spaceside and in bars; he had been an apprentice under Rhysling many years and millions of miles back. ' 'Nay, I will not.
His mother, never far from him, joined battle. But it doesn't matter. 'Crazy? Not the way you mean it. Off came the cumbersome space suit; what he needed was speed.
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