noon
He slipped through the silent ship and to the control room . He peered into the viewscope . Some galaxy or other spun its giant pinwheel outward toward some destiny of its own . The high noon of the endlessness had been unfamiliar for years . He checked the ship 's instruments . The Crew in the big tank simmered and throbbed in its introspective bliss , utterly oblivious to Kelly now . Kelly saw the red dwarf a few hundred million kilos away .