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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html THE TESSELLATED TETRAHEXAHEDRAL YELLOW ROSE OFTEXAS By Alan Dean Foster Sir, Ive got something very peculiar here. The lieutenant assumed an irascible expression and walked over. Mobler was not a particularly pleasant man, due in part to an unfortunate childhood disease that had given his skin the form and consistency of a golf balls surface. This pebbled epidermis would turn color according to his emotions. At present both cheeks resembled obese anemic strawberries. Despite this, he was respected, if not especially well liked, by the enlisted men and women who served under him. This was sad because Lieutenant Mobler was competent and intelligent. It wasnt his fault he looked like a sniffly adolescent instead of a soldier. It was dark in the long, sealed room. Illumination came from bulbs, purposely, dim set in the ceiling overhead and from the numerous dials, switches, and screens that lined both walls. Smartly uniformed people sat intent before the instruments. When they conversed at all, it was in whispers. A natural somberness kept talk soft and furtive, not orders. The purpose behind this room was well known to all who worked in it, and this itself was enough to inspire reverence and quiet. Now that businesslike attentiveness had been broken, and Mobler would know the reason why. Standing behind the young electronics spec. seven, he peered over his shoulder at the circular screen in front of them. It was lit from within by a rich fluorescence the color of pea soup. Right away he noted the cause of the specialists comment without detecting the declared peculiarity of it. So youve got a track,Davis. Whats so startling about that? Grimacing uncertainly, the specialist pointed to several small gauges set into the console at the screens