{"product_id":"2940014087131","title":"Happy Ending","description":"Sometimes the queerly shaped Venusian trees seemed to talk\u003cbr\u003e to him, but their voices were soft. They were loyal people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the\u003cbr\u003espace-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic\u003cbr\u003eGuards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fourth sat in the prow of the small craft looking down at their\u003cbr\u003egoal, hunched and silent, bundled up in a greatcoat against the coolness\u003cbr\u003eof space--a greatcoat which he would never need again after this\u003cbr\u003emorning. The brim of his hat was pulled down far over his forehead, and\u003cbr\u003ehe studied the nearing shore through dark-lensed glasses. Bandages, as\u003cbr\u003ethough for a broken jaw, covered most of the lower part of his face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe realized suddenly that the dark glasses, now that they had left the\u003cbr\u003ecruiser, were unnecessary. He slipped them off. After the\u003cbr\u003ecinematographic grays his eyes had seen through these lenses for so\u003cbr\u003elong, the brilliance of the color below him was almost like a blow. He\u003cbr\u003eblinked, and looked again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were rapidly settling toward a shoreline, a beach. The sand was a\u003cbr\u003edazzling, unbelievable white such as had never been on his home planet.\u003cbr\u003eBlue the sky and water, and green the edge of the fantastic jungle.\u003cbr\u003eThere was a flash of red in the green, as they came still closer, and he\u003cbr\u003erealized suddenly that it must be a _marigee_, the semi-intelligent\u003cbr\u003eVenusian parrot once so popular as pets throughout the solar system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the system blood and steel had fallen from the sky and\u003cbr\u003eravished the planets, but now it fell no more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd now this. Here in this forgotten portion of an almost completely\u003cbr\u003edestroyed world it had not fallen at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly in some place like this, alone, was safety for him.\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere--anywhere--imprisonment or, more likely, death. There was\u003cbr\u003edanger, even here. Three of the crew of the space-cruiser knew. Perhaps,\u003cbr\u003esomeday, one of them would talk. Then they would come for him, even\u003cbr\u003ehere.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079872004336,"sku":"2940014087131","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087131_p0.jpg?v=1763609662","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}