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The temperature had definitely increased. Kaira glanced at her datapad. It was two degrees up from where it had started, and the emergency cooling unit was making a lot more noise now. She didn’t know how long it would last, and she really didn’t want to think about how quickly the temperature would rise when it gave out.
Doug had given up on trying to hack into the systems now. He’d said there was just nothing else he could think of to try, and he’d tried everything he could think of three times at least. Now he and Azita were sitting close together, their daughter with them. Bianca had her two children with her. Kaira was squeezed in close to them.
It wouldn’t be long now. That was clear from the looks on the faces of the adults. It wouldn’t be long before they had to make
