Lawson Orbital
23 Jun 2016Howard, o Pato
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4625 kHzI threw my body down the long corridor, desperate, beating here and there, pushing with legs the maximum I could.
The lack of gravity has always bothered me. I had no practice.
It was very difficult to calculate a trajectory, propelling in the right direction, I felt useless while traveling to reach the next wall, which usually hit awkwardly before resuming the process.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZNyx was faster than me, maybe its pilot instinct speak up at that hour.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZBeats echoed getting louder and louder in the hall, behaving like a giant centipede, turning and twisting, using walls and ceiling as the steps approached.
I forced myself not to look back afraid to stumble and end up being run over.
The panic was uncontrollable.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZThe shipping depot was the worst part. High-ceilinged rooms.
It was very large and was practically empty. Nyx would get through in a single bound, nearly 500 meters from one end to the other. I used all the strength I had the legs, but the direction was badly designed. I walked away too much of the floor, could not change the direction. Nyx realized that I had missed the trajectory, when she went over some boxes, she pulled the lock of a cargo securing buckle, a long strip of buckle raised up in the air. I grabbed, that was a close call. It was enough to use as a pendulum and change my angle in the right direction.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZI hit my shoulder pretty hard against the hangar door while it closed slowly. Nyx had passed and triggered the emergency closing. I turned weightless trying to achieve anything that might put me in the right direction. Nyx grabbed my arm and pulled me into a second before the door close and that separates us from Him..
I barely understood what just happened and she kept pulling me towards the ship. Floated slowly to the front door. She did not let go of my arm to realize that I had clung to the railing.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZHis eyes were soaked tear.
There was no words I could say to ease the situation
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZInside the ship, my heart was racing, my hands were shaking ... No, it were not my hands, it was starting the engine.
Nyx was already preparing to take off Diamondback.
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In all these years, I had never realized how she was a pretty determined woman.
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