“Mary and Inky were there, too. No mission. No worries. Strangely his dream self didn’t find that unusual, but another part of his mind did. A spacer always worries. Only a fool doesn’t. There were no dingers, another part of him realized, because he and Mary were in the bed.Nothing to fear.Alex awoke with Mary asleep next to him and Inky snoozing at her feet. Thirsty, he went to their food panel. Plain water this time. For the moment he’d had enough geebrew.He sipped the drink standing at the p...icture window overlooking the park and the empty lake beyond. The cylinder was dark now. The central column was powering the drive train for the first of five Gee pulses necessary to get them home.Floodlights played over the surface for the benefit of the trees. They gave the cylinder an eerily festive look. Alex could easily imagine throngs of people cheering and celebrating among the moving shadows.The darkness had accompanied a cooling of the cylinder’s atmosphere, and clouds were beginning to form in patches where vegetation was thickest.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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