Afternoon faded into evening, and the spaceport lights came on as the gold sun sank below the hills fencing Durrell.

I sat in the back and admired Angelina, sitting at my side, clearly visible as soon as we had pulled out of the darkness of the hangar into the glare of the spaceport lights.

It was nearly dawn before the search was called off and the brilliant spaceport lights were switched off.

Then she broke off, and he had just enough awareness left to wonder if the glitter he saw against her cheeks was the spaceport light reflected from tears.

The spaceport light cast a peculiar yellowish glow upon them.

There was no visible movement anywhere except the three men trudging across the glistening black tarmac in the yellow glow of the spaceport lights.

He saw the spaceport lights miles before he got there.

Through them he could see flaring, blue spaceport lights, the shapes of groundcraft and resting ships, and, far beyond the lights, pale greenish moonlight.

A blackness intervened to shield out the spaceport lights and he hit the ground, knees buckling under him.

It had been the bulk of the warehouses that had cut off the spaceport lights.