But, as managers, general managers, scouts, agents, reporters and at least one owner gathered around the hotel, Ramírez's fuzzy future was being discussed.

He dismounted, handing the chestnut's reins to Aloryt, one of Jendsyr's rankers, and waited until the squad leaders and scouts had gathered around him on foot.

Smith's scouts and top aides gathered in the corridor outside the losers' dressing room after the game.

The scouts in low orbit had gathered what data they could about Orphean biology.

They're scattered across a field but the scouts have helpfully gathered them up and gotten all their bundles for them.

Yesterday afternoon, parents and scouts gathered at the Castleton Hill Moravian Church on Staten Island to grieve.

Sensing their collective will, the scout halted its dissipation efforts and gathered its energies for the jump to transwarp.

But others, still stinging from the first bloody struggle there at the dawn of the Jihad, wanted more information to send scouts to gather a large enough fleet to make a difference.