A row of three eyes stared coldly in his face.
Harvey jerked back, shuddered to fight back a yell, and ran madly down the hill toward Dana, but she was no longer in sight. For one wild second Harvey thought she had disappeared over the Edge. A look confirmed the fallacy of the notion. But behind him, the three floating red eyes stared impassively. Angrily, he wrenched them from the air and flung the glowing coals out into Infinity, and had the satisfaction of watching them dwindle into nothing. He had no idea what they were; all he knew was he hadn't liked them.
Disappointed at having lost Dana, he started back up the hill toward the Castle.
Thud!
Harvey picked himself up off the ground and explored the night air in front of him with wary hands. He encountered solid surface and felt his way around it, astonished. It was the ship! Dana had done nothing but render it invisible yesterday! He located the rocket tubes and the heavy arches of the landing fins, and looked up when he judged he should be under the airlock. A sudden, frightful flood of memory poured over him.
My God! Earth! The Universe! Me!
"Harvey?"
Silence. He squatted down under the rocket's firing flange, hidden from view of the airlock.