King had automatically noted the time shown by the Captain's watch as it was displayed. Two dollars, Entenza answered slowly. It's no sort of a life for a rocket man. A man touched him on the arm; Allan recognized an old schoolmate.
He nodded, the cadet brought his arm down smartly, and the first wave mounted and moved out. Harriman? Yes. He had plenty of time to think now, time to get all the lovely words just so, and to worry a verse until it sang true in his head. I wonder what it would have been like, he said thoughtfully, if they had been able to domesticate us.
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