"Move out of my way! I can drive myself!"said Lance, as he pushed R.Daneel out of the vehicle.

"Your cerebroanalysis indicates that you are distressed, Master. I must do everything to the best of my abilities to lessen that distress."said R.Daneel as he climbed into the car.

"What would I be upset about here?"

"Your emotions seem to indicate differently."

"And what could you possibly do about it?"

"Anything that is within my abilities, after I discover the cause of the problem."said R.Daneel quietly.

"I miss someone. Someone from my time, back on Earth!"said Lance.

R.Daneel remained silent.

"Should you remain at the estate in the company of the other masters?"

"This is just stupid! I mean, I don't have my car! And there's nothing to do, just be keeping kids in line! That doctor is just an idiot! I mean, you wouldn't believe what I heard! They didn't know I was there, of course. He was viewing Dr.Cantoro, as the guy I don't know what kind of a psycho he is, but you know, if he had known I was close by I'm sure he would've had the robots kill me."

"Robots cannot injure a human being under the-"

"First Law of Robotics! I know! I was just saying! Aren't you listening! Anyway, he was saying that what was needed was to get rid of the vestige for seeing! Imagine!"

"I know that humans must see in order to remain alive as a species. Even my Spacer masters were not immortal."

"He said that they were going to become hermaphrodites."said Lance.

R.Daneel's face showed no emotion.

"Although wouldn't that mean that it would be the same people all over again? I mean, exactly the same?"he asked.

"I do not believe the definition of that is anywhere in my memory banks, Master."

"Hermaphrodites. They're...both, you know. Both man and woman."

"I believe the genders are separate, Master. To my understanding that has been so."

"Well, they're going to combine them, apparently, so they won't have to see anymore. And I think they don't want anyone else to find out. And I saw something in the background. It made me think telepathy. That's just what the design struck me as. Weird."

"But the Solarians disappeared off the face of Solaria after the Settlers began colonizing new worlds."

"Mines."said Lance.

"I beg your pardon, Master."

"I don't know. It was kind of nice. They have the kids sleeping in mines. It's kind of neat, see I saw something like that on tv once! It was a house completely underground, in living rock. At ,least, part of the building is."

"TV?"

"Well, that was what we did back on Earth. Just watched tv."

"Of course, that was how you learned to view."

"I guess so. It was something like that. They gave a lot of weird things on tv. We would just watch, just cause. That's what struck me when I went down. The walls are actually living rock. It was kind of neat."

"The Solarians have the youngsters living in caves?"said R.Daneel quietly.

"Yeah."

R.Daneel nodded.

"The Caves of Steel they called them. Partner Elijah would find it difficult to deal with open spaces."

Lance shrugged.

"But the Solariarns have a small population."

"I suppose so."said Lance.

"They couldn't retreat underground."

"Why not?"

"There are too few. And many robots."said R.Daneel. "Solaria is Earth inside out. Whereas the Earthmen feared the open, living among crowds of humans, the Solarians feared humans, while living in the open. Why would they be interested in telepathy, though?"

"Because they have nothing better to do?"