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Heaven ranged from blue in the west to violet in the east. Antares was already visible, rising Venus-bright and ruby-red out of the Auroral Ocean. "You should have come here more often," Runeberg said. "You know I could hardly drag myself away from my work, ever, and then mostly to visit my parents," Banner replied. "Since Dad's death--" She broke off. The big blond man regarded her carefully. She stood profile to, so that he saw the curve of her nose below the high forehead, the set of her wide mouth and the jut of her chin and the long sweep of her throat down to the small bosom.
The hand shook that fished a cigarette from a tunic pocket, struck it, and brought it to her mouth. Cheeks caved in with the violence of her smoking. Her voice was hoarse rather than husky, and wavered. "Avalanche. Wiped out Yewwl's whole family ... and, oh, God, the Shrine, the heart of her clan's history--like wiping out Jerusalem--" A fist beat itself unmercifully against the console. "I should have guessed. But ... no experience ... I'm from Dayan, you know, warm, dry, no snow anywhere, and I've just been a visitor on worlds like Terra--" Her lips drew wide, her eyes squinched nearly shut.
Therefore she sallied forth on the morning after she arrived at the Runebergs' town house, and didn't come back, her tasks completed, till sundown. "You must be exhausted, fairling," said her host. " Fairling--The mild Hermetian endearment had taken on a special meaning for the two of them, when he was in charge of industrial operations at Ramnu and they had been lovers whenever they could steal time together. The three-year relationship had ended five years ago, with his inexplicable replacement by taciturn Nigel Broderick; it had never been deeply passionate; now he was married, and they had exchanged no more than smiles and glances during her stay, nor would they.