 What did Torp and Kam plan to do while Thig was posing as Lewis?
His task now was to bring a native, intact if possible, back to the carefully buried space cruiser where his two fellows and himself would drain the creature's mentality of all its knowledge. So it was that the bodies of the Earthman and the Orthan were strapped on two parallel tables of chill metal and the twin helmets, linked to one another by the intricacies of the psychic relay, put upon their heads. An hour later, his scars and altered cartilage already healed and painless, Thig again scraped sand over the entrance to the space ship and set out along the moonlit beach toward the nearest path running inland to his home.
 Scout out the other two inner planets
 Report back to the rest of the Orthans that they were making progress  Try to cover up the death of Lewis  Scout out the other two inner planets  Wait in the ship for the next call to action