Seeing that Zen was staring at him, he left off his talk with the craggy man and came over and saluted.
"How was it up in that satellite?" Zen asked.
"Lonely, as hell, colonel," Grant answered.
"Do you want to go with me to Asia?"
"There's no place on Earth I'd rather go. And, the way things stand now I don't have much choice. If they get that bomb into the air—" He left the sentence unfinished.
Then Nedra was standing in front of Zen. At the sight of her, it seemed to him that the world stood still. He shook his head.
"Why?" she challenged.
"Because I love you," he answered.
"Then that is the real reason why you should take me with you," she answered.
"I don't follow," he said.