about tenseconds. Ten seconds more and you would have been dead."
Mayhem was too tired to care. Then he felt a wrenching pain, and all atonce his _elan_ floated, serene, peaceful, in limbo. He had been pluckedfrom the dying body barely in time, to fight mankind's lone battleagainst the stars again, wherever he was needed ... out beyond Pluto.
Forever? It wasn't impossible.