"I have come to discuss a very grave problem," said the talking-attendant. "Then let's get down to details," said Chester Forge. "It's urgent you said." Interviews with Ravians always made Chester nervous. They wouldn't use the psi-control voice sets, and there was something uncanny in talking to a human, a talking-attendant, when you knew it wasn't the man speaking at all, but the alien intelligence he was temporarily host to. It was even more unsettling when the Ravian was a high official, as