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I narrowed my eyes against his belligerent tone. "So youre gonna quit at last. Can you finish out the week?" Miss Mayberry dropped a plastic needle. It bounced, rolled and ended up at my feet. I let it lie. Other voices were calling in the space around him, as he came once more within range of Launch Control. They waxed and waned as he flashed through the radio shadow of the mountains; they were talking about him, but the fact scarcely registered on his emotions. He listened with an impersonal interest, as if to messages from some remote point of space or time, of no concern to him. Once he heard Van Kessels voice say, quite distinctly: TellCallisto’s skipper we’ll give him an intercept orbit, as soon as we know that Leyland’s past perigee. Rendezvous time should be one hour, five minutes from now. I hate to disappoint you, thought Cliff, but that’s one appointment I’ll never keep. Kenebuck is. The technician reached over and tapped the screen, just below the left shoulder of Kenebucks jacket image. Slugthrower.” (Im a dirty liar about john) The doctor saw the thing lying on the bed and went over to it. Old Mose heard him sort of gasp and could see him standing there, very stiff and straight. Then he bent down and had a good look at the critter on the bed. I paced the floor, wondering what was happening now. The sun was shining, and I walked down Pico to Beverly Drive and then home. When I got to the house, my cousins werent there. Usually, they get home from work before I get home from school, but today they didn’t; in fact, they weren’t there for dinner either; so I just had a sandwich. Tell me something. What was the most unusual thing you noticed back there? Cunning and ruthless” were better descriptive adjectives. “I take it she hasnt already gone. How soon?” I finished the cocoa drowsily. It was still early, but the rain was drumming on the roof and it was the kind of night you curl up to if youre warm and fed. Sometimes you feel thin and cold on such nights, but I was feeling curl-uppy. So I groped under the bed for the paper bag that had my jammas in it. I couldn’t find it. Seven hours fifty-two minutes? Why, there isnt a satellite round earth with a period like that. In all the solar system there’s only— Our group was small. Beside myself, there were six girls. Miss Luptik had given them names. I became Blue Bear, according to the custom. He got the kettle boiling in the kitchen. There was now a pink glow in the east. He looked out the kitchen window and almost smiled. It was going to be a beautiful morning. He made the coffee quickly, four spoons of coffee powder in his pint mug, took the first bitter, exhilarating sip, tightened his robe about him, stepped out the kitchen door, and padded off down the garden path, holding his coffee mug carefully. Sabina disliked being referred to asmy good woman by strangers, particularly insincere strangers who made a living by treating women as second-class citizens, if not chattel. She crossed the room to where he stood, fixing him with her no-nonsense look. He backed up a step in the face of it. "So youre older than me. Okay?".
