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The Status Civilization
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Robert Sheckley
78
She
was
looking
up
from
the
faceted
glass
now,
shaking
her
head
sadly.
"There's
very
little
I
can
tell
you.
I
was
not
able
to
see
the
murder
performed.
But
I
skrenned
a
graveyard,
and
in
it
I
saw
your
parents'
tombstone.
It
was
an
old
tombstone,
perhaps
twenty
years
old.
The
graveyard
was
on
the
outskirts
of
a
place
on
Earth
called
Youngerstun."
Barrent
reflected
a
moment,
but
the
name
meant
nothing
to
him.
"Also,"
Myla
said,
"I
skrenned
a
man
who
knows
about
the
murder.
He
can
tell
you
about
it,
if
he
will."
"This
man
saw
the
murder?"
"Yes."
"Is
he
the
man
who
informed
on
me?"
"I
don't
know,"
Myla
said.
"I
skrenned
the
corpse,
whose
name
was
Therkaler,
and
there
was
a
man
standing
near
it.
That
man's
name
was
Illiardi."
"Is
he
here
on
Omega?"
"Yes.
You
can
find
him
right
now
in
the
Euphoriatorium
on
Little
Axe
Street.
Do
you
know
where
that
is?"
"I
can
find
it,"
Barrent
said.
He
thanked
the
girl
and
offered
payment,
which
she
refused
to
take.
She
looked
very
unhappy.
As
Barrent
was
leaving,
she
called
out,
"Be
careful."
Barrent
stopped
at
the
door,
and
felt
an
icy
chill
settle
across
his
chest.
"Did
you
skren
my
future?"
he
asked.
"Only
a
little,"
Myla
said.
"Only
a
few
months
ahead."
"What
did
you
see?"
"I
can't
explain
it,"
she
said.
"What
I
saw
is
impossible."
"Tell
me
what
it
was."
"I
saw
you
dead.
And
yet,
you
weren't
dead
at
all.
You
were
looking
at
a
corpse,
which
was
shattered
into
shiny
fragments.
But
the
corpse
was
also
you."
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