"Electricity--they drew down from the sun spot.

And it was more than that--I saw the Cones grow under it.
It fed them as it fed the Hordes--but the Cones grew.

It was as though the shields and the Cones turned pure energy into substance." "And if we hadn't been pretty thoroughly magnetized to start with it would have done for us," he said.
We watched the operation going on in front of us.

The cross shapes had bent, hinging above the transverse arms.

They bowed in absolute unison as at some signal.