He wondered about another such possibility, decided not to mention it. "Where's Dawn?  And where's Mike?  The place seems awfully quiet." No one had come through the hail they were in and he heard no voices and yet that odd feeling of happy expectancy was even stronger than it had been the night before.  He would have expected a certain release from tension after the ceremony he had apparently joined in himself - unbeknownst - but the place was more charged up than ever.  It suddenly reminded him of how he had felt, as a very small boy, when waiting for his first circus parade... and someone had called out: "There come the elephants!"