Chapter 2
The next morning the fog had retreated to its normal ten metres visibility. Luckily it was a Saturday – yes, our forefathers brought their timekeeping system with them from Terra, including minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, the whole nine yards. Admittedly there was some adaptation needed. The planet's days were twenty-six hours long so we had to add a two hour period at the end of the day which we called, rather unimaginatively, ‘extra-time’. We did something similar at the end of each month to offset the slightly longer year too.
Anyway, after I’d inhaled my morning dose of Zima – I did offer some to Sestra, but she declined – we made our way to see Kay so that Sestra could buy some more appropriate clothing. It was quite a pleasant walk, or as pleasant as walking in fog c
