noon
It was still daylight . The blurred sun was winging across the zenith so swiftly that its movement was visible . Wandl had been suddenly endowed with axial rotation . Even in these few minutes , the day was past its noon . On the distant mountain peaks looming above the nearby horizon ; it seemed that the sheen of coming night was mingled with the red sunlight . Anita and Snap laid Venza on the rocks . I suddenly remembered the two blobs in the sky behind us , which had seemed to be following .