#36: It showed no hint of being in a city soaring a hundred kilometers above the surface, carried in a great wind that circled the entire planet every hundred hours.

#35: “Betcha it won’t be,” Amelia said quietly, so only Del could hear.

#34: “It’ll be interesting to see who.”

#33: “Which means what?” Jie asked. “It was lower class Venusian fashion ten years ago?”

#32: “What in the void is that?” Del asked them.

#31: The ship was only capable of two Gs acceleration and they wouldn’t be using anywhere near that.

#30: “I thought you can’t have space elevators on Venus,” Del said. “The rotation’s too slow.”

#29: Venus was now close enough to be discernable as a tiny yellow disk.

#28: “Until we can come up with a plan, and a better reason than ‘why not,’ I’m voting no.”