Kaira eyed the maintenance vehicle warily. It was large, much larger than she’d imagined. Easily three times her height and at least twenty metres long.
But the space they were all going to travel in was far smaller than she’d expected. They wouldn’t exactly be squeezed against each other for the whole trip, but not far off it.
“The machine’s not really designed for many to travel in it,” said Doug. “It only happens very occasionally, and never with more than a couple of technicians to try and sort out any issues. And of course they’d have suits that protected them against the heat.”
“Suits we don’t have,” said Kaira.
“Funnily enough, they don’t make them in children’s sizes. Besides, if we all had the suits on we wouldn’t fit. We’ve got the emergency cooling system. That shoul
