human
Interesting, aren't they? They're rock breathers, you know. They need very little oxygen, and they extract that from the silicates and other oxygen-containing compounds of the rock.
gpt
Don't talk about them.
human
All right, if you don't want me to. But about us--you see, my dear, no one expected us to be lost. And even if the Lighthouse Service has started to look for us, it'll take a long time to find us.
gpt
We have food, water, air. If not for those beasts, we'd last until a rescue ship appeared.
human
But even a rescue ship wouldn't be able to reach us unless we kept the beam going. So far, we've been lucky. It's really functioned remarkably well. But sooner or later it'll go out of order, and then I'll have to go out and fix it. You agree to that, don't you, Louise, dear?
gpt
The beam must be kept in order.
human
That's when the creatures will get me, he said, almost with satisfaction.
gpt
I may kill one or two of them, although the way I feel toward everything, I hate to kill anything at all. But you know, sweetheart, that there are more than a dozen of them altogether, and it's clumsy shooting in a spacesuit at beasts which move as swiftly as they do.
human
And if you don't succeed in fixing what's wrong, if they get you--