Haven at Last
Haven at LastAn increasing sense of futility and depression crept over Kim and Dona during the next few days.
They visited four solar-systems, separated by distances which would have seemed unthinkable before the alteration of the overdrive.
There was no longer any sensation of travel, because no distance required any appreciable period of time. Once, indeed, Kim commented curtly on the danger that would exist if they went too close to the galaxy’s edge. With only the amount of received light to work the cut-out switch, under other circumstances they might have plunged completely out of the galaxy and to unimaginable distances before the switch could have acted.
“I’m going to have to put a limiting device of some sort on this thing,” he observed. “With a limiting device,
