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Usage examples of benn.

The altar, Benn thought, empty now, with no ores left to salvage and no more Delvers arriving to carry them away.

With an effort to pull himself away from the tantalizing riddles of the robe, Benn followed it through the fog to another motionless Hydran, lying almost beyond pickup range and barely visible.

Waiting, Benn stared at the robe until the shifting riddles of its cryptic patterns began to hurt his eyes.

That was an odd name for it, Benn thought, because there were no squirrels in the halo.

The exercise made Benn and his father puff and sweat, but they had to do it every day because they needed the gravity of Earth as well as air to breathe.

His voice trailed off, and his gray eyes had sharp lines around them when they came back to Benn.

He seemed to feel that Benn was only a planetic, anyhow, with no proper place here in the halo.

Friday said it was something no planetic would ever need, but he wanted Benn to learn.

His father shrugged as if that didn't really matter, though to Benn it did.

One of those knobs opened now, into a single brown eye that looked exactly like one of the eyes Benn saw in the mirror.

Gibbon never offered another handshake, but Benn never forgot that one.

His own jokes, though, were never very funny, and he seemed hurt and bewildered once when Benn tried an April Fool joke on him, planting an explosive to go off with a loud bang when Gibbon opened the lab door.

He shook his body sadly after he was calm again and Benn was trying to apologize.

Once, after the little nanionic ship they named Terra Two was fitted for life support, he took Benn with him to Heart of Hydra.

Gibbon was there to chair a symposium on Terra, and he had brought Benn as a live exhibit.