At intervals, he closed up toward them, sometimes with bright lights, on other occasions with dim ones.
Oh, I don't take the older boys, or only the dimmer ones in the lower streams.
Who knows how many stars there are, All those dim ones filling the black Until it seems no black is there.
The brighter stars, however, are not true members of the cluster, as they are closer to the Earth than the dimmer ones.
That was his milieu, he told himself, casinos with bright lights, back rooms with dim ones.
Then the lights came up, albeit dim ones that left the far walls in shadow-shrouded obscurity, and he found himself staring at- Gryphon-ghosts!
Overhead the brighter stars gleamed frostily down, but the dimmer ones were lost in the moonlight, for the full moon was high.
It wasn't enough for him to get his computer back, but at least now there were lights, albeit dim ones, and the doors would work.
Then lights-few of them, and dim ones.
The dim red ones will go soon, too.