velvet-softness

Updated: May 4, 2025

He had memories of a tiny room, very neat and compact, with even a single huge rose in a vase on the bed table. But the time had a fierce velvet-softness that tried to draw him to it forevermore. It was like the grip of home, and the lost Earth, and the fear that he would chicken out and return. He found Gimp, who seemed worried. "You might get stuck, here, on account of Rodan," he said.

Raymond Z. Gallun - The Planet Strappers