Permanence (2016)
“She had reached the outer station now, far from her bedroom and was breathing hard enough to use up a day’s ration of oxygen. Add that to my bill, she thought sourly.
Jentry and the others couldn’t be far behind. She had been unbelievably stupid, she knew; but this time Jentry had gone too far. She reached up and absently stroked the small stone disk that hung on a thong around her neck. Jentry could insult her; he could restrict her access to vital parts of the station; he could poison the... minds of the workers against her. But to steal her birthright—no, if she had to do it again, she would still have gone to steal it back. Maybe more carefully, though… Her uneven breath frosted in the dim weightless air. The outer shells of the spherical station were a maze of corridors and cells, relying on what little warmth trickled out of the Core for energy. This corridor was one of the rarely used ringways—a long hexagonal tunnel outside the Earth-G centrifuge, intermittently lit and lined with filmy shipfur.MoreLess
Jentry and the others couldn’t be far behind. She had been unbelievably stupid, she knew; but this time Jentry had gone too far. She reached up and absently stroked the small stone disk that hung on a thong around her neck. Jentry could insult her; he could restrict her access to vital parts of the station; he could poison the... minds of the workers against her. But to steal her birthright—no, if she had to do it again, she would still have gone to steal it back. Maybe more carefully, though… Her uneven breath frosted in the dim weightless air. The outer shells of the spherical station were a maze of corridors and cells, relying on what little warmth trickled out of the Core for energy. This corridor was one of the rarely used ringways—a long hexagonal tunnel outside the Earth-G centrifuge, intermittently lit and lined with filmy shipfur.MoreLess
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