_A knife wound can be a serious matter on Earth. On Venus, it's a six-hour flow into vilest eternity_. Graff Dingle stolidly watched yellow mold form around the stiletto hole in his arm. He smelled the first faint jasmine odor of the disease and glanced up to where the sun glowed unhappily behind a mass of dirty clouds and wind-driven rain.…
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