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Usage examples of dap.

She followed Dap into a small sitting room, in the center of which was a silver-hemisphered device standing waist high.

The feeling stayed with her as she crossed the room to where Dap was moving a pair of seats into the fringe of the glowing field.

And she glimpsed the woman Dap had rigged with, Deira, and his attraction and growing intimacy with her.

Jael shivered with envy, and with nervousness, because she sensed in Dap a sly querying interest toward her now.

Before she could even catch her breath, she was showering Dap with other visions.

In the dizzying energy of the dreamlink, she could sense that the link between Dap and herself was straining, like a fabric being pulled, stretched, torn.

She would put Dap behind her, as she had put all of the others behind her.

She would not be kept from it by Dap or by her fellow riggers or by what anyone thought of her father.

She drew her knees up under her chin, thinking of Dap, whom she had trusted.

She saw Dap coming to see her at the rigger school, he the senior, she the novice.

Dap looked exactly as Dap always had, handsome and mild-mannered and gentle.

And Jael started to hate him all over again now, as she saw the horror on his face, and she felt again the betrayal and abandonment as Dap shrank away from her.

Highwing sighed, and the image of Dap and the pale light vanished in a cloud of sparks.

Reaching into her pocket, she drew out the chain that Dap had given her on the day of her departure.

She thought of the rime with Dap, and how she had allowed her fears to ruin an innocent and beautiful experience.