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The pilot and the prisoner had reached the shuttle some time ago, with the panting professor hot on their heels, or nearly. The pilot had inspected the vehicle and checked that the controls were operational. Everything seemed okay. And the professor, by no means unawkwardly, guarded the prisoner, pointing his own weapon at him. Whether he knew how to use it was anybody’s guess.
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Villata, M. (2017). The Pilot and the Prisoner Had Reached the Shuttle. In: The Dark Arrow of Time. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67486-5_10
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