"Staring at her black, limpid eyes, so wistful and afraid in their dark circles of weariness and want, Forester scarcely heard her thinly urgent voice. He felt a tingle in his scalp, and he failed to stop his shivering. For the human body, it occurred to him, also contained a fatal quantity of that radioactive isotope. If this strange child could stop a humanoid by looking at it in a certain particular way, she could doubtless also kill a man."