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Usage examples of belem.

When I investigated Belem's disappearance I was much disturbed to learn how many other Mechandroids had vanished at the same time.

I assigned to the Mechandroid Belem a problem involving the opening of the Betelgeuse system.

While Mechandroid knowledge and experience goes into a common pool Belem's reactions would be a shade quicker since he had once opened a similar system before, so I asked him.

We studied the records and traced Belem's movements up to the moment of his disappearance.

Obviously Belem had thought it necessary to disappear in order to solve his assigned problem.

It didn't surprise me a great deal to find recording-tapes in Belem's laboratory which described and localized a terrestrial time-axis.

But he did not know that the Mechandroid Belem -- De Kalb -- was spying through my brain.

I felt certain of that, as certain as though -- De Kalb -- Belem had told me in so many words.

I suspect that Belem checked all the possible influential factors, and saw that nekronic matter exists in Andromeda on a planet of a sun ready to become a nova.

For some reason I don't know yet Belem decided the time-axis should be -- " He paused, scowling.

De Kalb must linger somewhere, submerged but waiting, behind the metal eyes of Belem.

Your duplicate, my duplicate, Belem's, the woman's -- they all disintegrated.

He was there -- De Kalb, Belem -- with his cold metal gaze looking out through my eyes and his cold metal thoughts moving through mine.

At Belem's annoyed command, I reopened them and either fell or ran toward the white cone that was the corridor itself extended beyond infinity and in geometric reversal.

They went with us through four transitions and we left them at the fifth when Belem said at last, "Here we'll get out.