 Why was Templin leery of the children on Tunpesh?
Pendleton had been in his second year as attache on Tunpesh, a small planet with a G-type sun. Tunpesh had been inspected and certified and approved. And then an unscheduled freighter had put in for repairs, one of the very few ships that ever came by Tunpesh. Tunpesh had been Pendleton's second assignment. Eckert and he had been chosen to go to Tunpesh and investigate. The thin red line was practically microscopic now and Templin could feel his lashes lying gently on his cheeks. Their information on Tunpesh was limited. They knew that it had no trading concessions or armed forces and that nobody from neighboring systems seemed to know much about it or even visited it. But a staff anthropologist must have been routinely assigned to Tunpesh to furnish data and reports.
 He knew even children were capable of doing damage with a weapon.
 They seemed to be much older than children and only disguised as such.  Their appearance gave him an eerie feeling about their potential danger.  He knew even children were capable of doing damage with a weapon.  They were too eager to come near strangers and that made him uneasy.