As it passes across the shuttle we see a crystalline dew on the surface of a chair. There is the same rime of time and condensation on all the surfaces.

rime (n) 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost]; 2: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme] – source: David Thomson: The Alien Quartet, p. 77