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Two floated in the twilight void.

Arms around each other, the chin of each resting on the shoulder of the other, they spun around a
common axis and turned over and over, heads over heels.

Around them (there was no above or below) was nothing. Only the invisible air pushing them
towards the sun in the center of the sphere. The sun was obscured by a cloud of dust.
 Jack Cull held Phyllis Nilstrom tightly while he stared past her. Presently, for he had no means of
telling time in a world where the sun never moved, he saw a speck appear. His heart beat many times.
Then, the speck was much larger. Before long, he knew that the object was not heading straight for them.
Nor was it, as he had first thought, part of the debris left after the cataclysm; a building or a tree or a
chunk of ripped-apart mountain. Its shape was that of a living thing, although not like any creature he had
ever seen in this world.

The thing changed course and swept around in an arc, obviously after having sighted the two
human beings. It came closer, and then Cull knew that it must be a member of the newcomer species, the
third group to become tenants of this world.

He was not unnerved at seeing the monstrous shape. He had gone through too much too
re-cently to be shaken. He was not even giving the creature his full attention but was thinking of an Earth
that he remembered but had never seen, had hoped briefly to see, and now knew that he would never
see.

And he thought of that time, not so long ago as men counted time by sleeps and awakenings,