We could each manage one of the heavy tool kits, but which would be the most useful? Masonry kit? No. Electronics? Yes, Gunfire could carry that. Did he know any electronics? Maths people used computers, he had to know something. He was a big man, maybe he could carry both that and the life support cylinders. That way I could haul… the plumbing kit? The life support kit?
“It’s the best offer you’re going to get,” Kendall said. “Perhaps you could don pressure suits and climb outside. We expect the current conditions to last as long as two weeks. Perhaps three. You cannot carry enough supplies to endure that long.”
Kendall had a point. I picked the life support kit.
“If we wanted to harm you,” Kendall said, “you would already be dead. We could put gas down there and you’d never know.”
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