Chapter 5Serena brought the small vehicle to rest inside a cleft just aft of a set of twelve engines on the gargantuan spaceliner.
The behemoth ship outsized her yacht several thousand times and outweighed it by at least a million. Its hull was riddled with more fissures, extrusions, struts, couplers, intakes, and exhausts than one of those old oil refineries that used to sprawl across Earth, themselves the size of cities.
The starliner Henry VIII carried nearly five hundred thousand people, two thirds of those passengers. A hundred and sixty thousand people were needed just to operate the beast.
Serena's yacht was no more than a gnat to an elephant, the big ship more likely to crush hers by accident than by intent. She powered down the yacht and secured it to its perch with magnetic an
