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The palms bowed stiffly as Scout Ship AX25 blasted up into the sky, peppering them with another spray of dust.
The three occupants of the ship were rocked back on their acceleration couches for only a few seconds. Then Allan Cunliffe got up, strolled casually over to the port and gazed out. Nobody would guess from his composed face that the ship had just embarked on a hazardous mission.
‘At once you begin to love,’ he said, looking down at the world with a kind of pride.
His friend, Tyne Leslie, nodded in an attempt at agreement. It was the best, at the moment, that he could do. Joining Allan, he too looked out.
Already, he observed wonderingly, the mighty panorama of sunset was only a red stain on the carpet below them; Sumatra lay across the equator like a roasting fish on a spit. Outside: a starry void. In his stomach: another starry void.
At once you begin to live… But this was Tyne’s first trip on the spy patrol; living meant extra adrenalin walloping through his heart valves, the centipede track of prickles over his skin, the starry void in the lesser intestine.
‘It’s the sort of feeling you don’t get behind an office desk,’ he said. Chalk one up to the office desk, he thought.
Allan nodded, saying nothing. His silences were always positive. When the rest of the world was talking as it never had before, Allan Cunliffe remained silent. Certainly he had as many missed feelings about the Rosks as anyone else on Earth: but he kept the lid on them. IT was that quality as much as any other that had guaranteed a firm friendship between Allan and Tyne, long before the latter followed his friend’s lead and joined the Space Service.
‘Let’s get forward and see Murray,’ Allan said, clapping Tyne on the back. Undoubtedly he had divined something of the other’s feelings…
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