Revolution's Shore
“Lily’s hands began to hurt first, from being curled around the metal rungs, then the arch of her foot, from pushing off all the time. Eventually her back began to ache as well, right around the shoulders and between the shoulder blades.
Rainbow started to lose ground fairly soon. Yehoshua and Alsayid kept up until they passed the door marked level 6 and then their lights, too, began to recede into the vast depths of blackness that surrounded them: the empty, seemingly bottomless central shaft.
...Lily had to stop just above level 5. She laced her elbows around a rung and let her hands hang open, breathing hard. Below, Jenny stopped as well, but Kyosti continued up until he was half-overlapping Lily. Letting go with one hand, he massaged each of her palms in turn.
“Hoy,” she gasped. “You’d think it was three kilometers between levels instead of one-third.”
“It’ll get worse,” replied Kyosti cheerfully.
It did. She reached a point where she could block the pain lancing through her muscles, but the halts became more frequent, and the relief they afforded less.MoreLess
Rainbow started to lose ground fairly soon. Yehoshua and Alsayid kept up until they passed the door marked level 6 and then their lights, too, began to recede into the vast depths of blackness that surrounded them: the empty, seemingly bottomless central shaft.
...Lily had to stop just above level 5. She laced her elbows around a rung and let her hands hang open, breathing hard. Below, Jenny stopped as well, but Kyosti continued up until he was half-overlapping Lily. Letting go with one hand, he massaged each of her palms in turn.
“Hoy,” she gasped. “You’d think it was three kilometers between levels instead of one-third.”
“It’ll get worse,” replied Kyosti cheerfully.
It did. She reached a point where she could block the pain lancing through her muscles, but the halts became more frequent, and the relief they afforded less.MoreLess
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