The crawl had been hard. The climb had been harder. Iasa flexed her fingers, trying to dull the aching pain. She looked around the bridge deck, seeing the mess Tiny had made of the crew and her team members, still lying where she’d left them. She looked back to the hatch she’d crawled from. The station was riddled with spaces, it turned out. How Hornwood had known she couldn’t guess and he hadn’t said. The point was more important: she really could go anywhere she wanted. All she needed was a little time and a lot of effort. The access he'd led her to on Secondary-one had been a tight fit. Too tight, as it turned out, to reach into with the bio-suit on. She'd been forced to choose between risking infection and risking a total loss of her mission. Now she stood, garbed in the black of he

