Eva Armour shook him. "Wake up, Ash," she said. "Can't you hear me, Ash? Wake up."
Sutton opened his eyes. He was lying on a bunk and the girl still was shaking him.
"O.K.," he said. "You can stop now. O.K."
He swung his legs off the bunk and sat on its edge. His hand went up and felt the lump on his jaw.
"Herkimer had to hit you," Eva said. "He didn't want to hit you, but you were unreasonable and we had no time to lose."
"Herkimer?"
"Certainly. You remember Herkimer, Ash. He was Benton's android. He's piloting this ship."
The ship, Sutton saw, was small, but it was clean and comfortable and there would have been room for another passenger or two. Herkimer, talking his precise, copybook speech, had said it was small but serviceable.
"Since you've kidnapped me," Sutton told the girl, "I don't suppose you'd mind telling me where we're going."
"We don't mind at all," said Eva. "Were going to the hunting asteroid that you got from Benton. It has a lodge and a good supply of food and no one will think of looking for us there."