Let there be Night

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Robert F. Young. Let there be Night

Let there be Night

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Let there be Night

by Robert F. Young

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This is considerably simpler in the telling than it was in the actual doing. The half trek-half climb down that mountainside had taken me three days twenty-six hour ones and I had been in the forest the better part of the fourth.

The girl had long auburn hair that looked darker than it really was because it was wet. She had big, almost luminous, gray eyes, an attractive nose, and rather full lips. A dimple dotted the center of her chin. There had been some doubt in my mind whether the natives of X-4 would turn out to be human there are some recorded cases of planets of the genus Old Earth giving birth to nonhuman intelligences but as I watched the girl, the doubt was dispelled. If anything, she was more than human, physically at least, and glimpsing the flash of her long symmetrical legs and the white gleamings of her graceful arms and shoulders I felt like Adonis spying on Venus. If the analogy doesn’t quite come off, I alone am to blame, because while I failed to qualify as Adonis, the girl in the brook was on a par with Venus, and then some.

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