"I'm keeping," Iimmi assured him.
"By the time we get to the top of whatever we're trying to get to the top of," rumbled Urson, "we won't be able to see anything. It'll be too dark."
"Then let's hurry," Geo admonished.
Sunset stained one side of the towers copper while blue shadows hugged the other. By way of a plastic-domed stairway, they mounted another eighty feet to a broader highway where they could look down on the band of lights which was the one they had just left. They were beginning to clear the roofs of the lower buildings now.
On this road fewer lights were working. They were just about to enter a dark section when a figure appeared in silhouette at the other end.
They stopped, but the figure was suddenly gone. A little farther, Geo suddenly halted and said, "There!"
Two hundred feet ahead of them, what may have been a naked woman rose from the ground, and began to walk backwards until she disappeared into the next dark length of road.
"Do you think she was running away from us?" Iimmi asked.
Urson reached out and touched Iimmi's jewel. "I wish we have some more light around here."
"Yeah," Iimmi agreed. They continued.