The evening air was pale and chilly and after every chargechargeand thudthudof the footballers the greasy leather orb flewflylike a heavy bird through the grey light .
Her garments twinedtwineand flewflyaround the delicate moulding of her dark , young , half-naked limbs .
And invisible to me because it was so remote and small , flyingflyswiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance , drawingdrawnearer every minute by so many thousands of miles , camecomethe Thing they were sendingsendus , the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth .