He turned on his heel and strode out again. Startled and hurt Joanna lunged to her feet tripped on her petticoats and cursed. The cold outside was like a slap in the face; in the bleak narrow.

Now though Liet wallowed in shameful thoughts wondering if he had somehow caused this tragedy to happen. Was it the fervent desire he'd voiced upon seeing the white Biyan? There he and Warrick had both wished to marry the young woman. Liet had tried to accept his defeat graciously at the Cave of Birds suppressing the selfish voice in the back of his mind that had never allowed him to forget how much he still wanted her. Did my secret wishes cause this tragedy to happen?.
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Gauges dropped swiftly toward zero. At the control panel Bowman's eyes flickered anxiously back and forth over the situation display and the improvised charts which he now had to consult for any real-time decisions. It would be an appalling anticlimax if having survived so much he failed to make rendezvous through lack of a few pounds of fuel. The whistle of the jets faded as the main thrust died and only the verniers continued to nudge Discovery gently into orbit. Japetus was now a giant crescent that filled the sky; until this moment Bowman had always thought of it as a tiny insignificant object - as indeed it was compared with the world around which it circled. Now as it loomed menacingly above him it seemed enormous - a cosmic hammer poised to crush Discovery like a nutshell. .
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