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hundred percent sure that put an end to it."
"Sounds too simple," Jake protested.
"What are you proposing, Sergeant?" I wanted to hear Kendall's plan.
"Different plasma forms react differently to excessive heat," Ferris warned.
"I'm not talking heat," Kendall maintained. "I'm talking fire, and lots of it."
"What are you gonna do?" Jake grunted. "Set the whole damn woods on fire and hope and pray those damn things are in there?"
"I think we'd all be interested in your plan, Sergeant," Ferris mumbled. The old man had a habit of talking around his pipe, and there were times when no one could understand him.
"There's nothing wrong with the scheme we used in the second sweep. We had a good planknock the thing down with the tranquilizer darts from a 731 loaded with Selphon 3431 and then get the trap blanket over it and anchored."
I glanced around the room to get a reaction to Kendall's plan. Everyone was nodding except Jake and Bert. Jake looked skeptical. Bert was wearing an expression I couldn't read.
If anyone had bothered to ask me, I would have told them that I was just as dubious as Madden. As far as I knew, yours truly was the only one who had actually survived

 
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