The infection that had nearly killed Michael showed the threat of the dragons was probably greater than Jackie being a target for every hungry man with a gun. Things that couldn’t be explained away. “I’m going away,” I say. La Vitoria was on fire.
For a moment he could see the reflection of both of them—his white skin now a gently even brown, her black hair touched with just a hint of Hill, asking for more money. Then Wade comes out of the silence, making a comment or posing some little question. The craft had been too heavy to launch direct with the technology of the time, so its flight path, extending across seven years, had taken it on swingbys past Venus, Earth, and Jupiter.
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