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Description
A man and a robot crash on a planet and send out a distress call that will be answered in three days. They have enough provisions, but they are attacked by a huge creature who destroys their provisions leaving them with only enough oxygen pills for one of them to survive. The monster is slow, but continues to pursue them over the course of two days when they find that they only have enough pills for one of them to survive the third day. The man tosses the pills to the robot and runs towards the monster to sacrifice himself. Suddenly, the rescue ship appears one day early, and the robot rushes the creature determined not to let the man perish when rescue is at hand. The creature is startled by the bright lights and sounds of the landing ship and releases the man. It is only at the end of the story the reader learns the "robot" was actually the native life form and the "man" was a human-looking robotic construction of the "robot".