Chapter Fifteen
When it was Lorn’s turn, he found it easy enough to grab the rungs in the tube wall. In here, there were no friendly blue lights; only the lights they carried, attached to their right shoulders. Ahead of him, Shadow and Kiri seemed to be moving through a vast, formless darkness. He had no sense of the size of the tube except that it was large, and extended, it seemed, forever both below and ahead of them, though that made no sense. They were close to the outside of the hab already, so the tube had to end, or loop, or however the things worked, not far below them.
Of course, “not far” could still be far enough to kill him if he slipped off the ladder, so he quit worrying about where they were or where they were going and concentrated instead on where he placed his hands an
