“ We walk through the darkened corridors, stepping over fallen rock, dealing with dust that remains even though the walls are still covered with black. The air is humid and a little too warm for my taste, although I know it is cooler than the air on the surface.
Sometimes I think I should put my environmental suit back on. But I don’t. Instead, I tell Mikk and Roderick about the ship.
“I’m amazed you left the room at all,” Mikk says, but his eyes twinkle. He knows that I’m a slave to the schedule, but he also knows how tempted I can be by the unknown.
“We had no idea that anything had changed outside,” I say. “We thought we’d take a break, sleep, eat, and come back to work.”
Now I’m not sure when we’ll be back. I’m not sure what we’ll find when we get out.
If we get out.
I don’t say those things, but I know the others are thinking them.
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