He looked MacKinnon over with a face expressionless except for a recurrent tic which caused his right eye to wink spasmodically every few seconds. We've both said more than once that we wished we had had sense enough never to have left Earth. He gets red in the face and starts laying down the law to me. Then he paused and waited for them to blow off steam.
Dixon, Entenza, the Governor of Colorado, the Vice-President of the United States, and a round dozen of V. Before he started the tortoise again, MacKinnon had to see to his upper lip, which was swollen and tender and bleeding from a deep scratch. I can just see him. There were several tiny figures prowling around, the flash apron where the ship had stood-souvenir hunters, he thought contemptuously.
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