Copyright (c) 1972 by Ray Bradbury
Pipkin nowhere to be seen.
Way off, toward the horizon, something dark frittered
and danced and slithered away in the cold star air.
"Help-help-" wailed a fading voice.
Then it was gone.
"Oh," mourned Mr. Moundshroud. "This is bad. I
fear Something has taken him away."
"Where, where?" gibbered the boys, cold.
"To the Undiscovered Country. The Place I wanted
to show you. But now--"
"You don't mean that Thing in the ravine, It,
or Him, or whatever, that Something, was-- Death? Did he grab Pipkin and--
run?!"
"Borrowed is more like it, perhaps to hold him
for ransom," said Moundshroud.
"Can Death do that?"
"Sometimes, yes."
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"Secrecy is the begining
of tyranny."
from: " The Notebooks of Lazarus
Long" by Robert Heinlein
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