He had listened then with eyes wide and the breath catching in his throat, even though his father had laughed and suggested wryly that the red tribes were no more monsters than were the men of the company.
Then he went up into the observation room where he ate a sparse meal, afterwards sitting and watching the desert landscape through the glas-site dome. Astron was near the center of the very front while phoebe was halfway to the rear and nearly touching the left.
They discussed players and compositions for so long that aly wanted to sleep where she stood.