a Harl caught Ellen’s arm. ‘Come with us!’ he said.
b ‘There’s a tree out there on that airfield which
is forty years old, if not more.’
c ‘Our journey through space will take eight years.’
d The buildings were silent and empty.
e ‘They could see, hear, feel everything, every minute of their waking lives.’
f Harl smelled the autumn leaves and the soft warm wind.
g ‘Drewitt did a lot of experiments with monkeys.’
h They watched for the lights of the moon’s Tycho City, but the place was dead.
i It was a man; strange- looking, but a real living man.
j The green thing still looked like a tennis ball.