"Perhaps Toka needs only to know me better."
Toka stood up and sauntered away. At that moment the main portals swung
in for the cortege to clear away the dining service.
As the portals swung shut again, Toka glanced cynically at Kolano.
"Everybody knows just when to come and go."
"The Sphere has long told the times of all your needs and
actions--past, present and future."
"All right," Toka challenged sardonically, "what am I going to do next?"
"You are going to bed. And I am returning to my private rooms."
Touching open the passage door, Kolano departed with a soft smile for
him.
He was alone and free--but for a vow. He opened the great portals. The
Hall Of Life stretched away vast and deserted. To the continuity had
been added the scene of his recent dinner with Kolano.
_If he could find where they had those scenes stored_.... But another
thought held him. _If the future did show Kolano and him as she had
intimated_....
Toka turned back into the bridal suite. If he was going to get free he
would, and if he wasn't....
It was a line of reasoning typically Kosannan!
The ceiling's glowing had dimmed. Toka turned down the silky covers of
the great bed.
... _the smooth whiteness of Kolano's skin ... the Titian sheen of her
hair ... the deep smouldering in those silvery eyes ... the curve of
those carmine lips ... the curvedness of_--