Among The Stars (Heinlein's Finches Book 2) by Robin Banks

Author:Robin Banks [Banks, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

When the power alarm wakes me up, I expect the world to be different, but it isn’t. The wagons, the stables, the ATRs, the big top in the background, all the markers of my world are still there, unaffected. I’d half expected them to have been washed away in the night. Then I see the ground; or, rather, I don’t see it. I see a shimmering, uncertain surface where the ground used to be. Water. The ground is covered in water. It looks too beautiful for words and terribly, terribly wrong.

I climb down my steps and right down into it. It’s not that deep: it only comes halfway up my foot. It feels weird against my boots, but not unpleasant. It’s cold, though. I’m glad we got kitted out for it.

I kick the water around for a bit, because I can. It looks really pretty as it shimmers through the air. I stop when I manage to splash my trousers. Yeah, it’s definitely cold. A load of it right in the crotch is no fun at all.

“Are you enjoying yourself?” Alya’s peering out of her ATR.

“Not sure. How did the water get in? It rained outside the bubble.”

“Seepage. Water moves through the soil.”

“I don’t get that.”

“That’s because you’re curious enough to want to know the whys and hows of things, not just the whats. I’ll dig you up an article. I’m hazy on this. It’s not much of a problem on a torus or a ship.”

“It’s this what you were worried about? It doesn’t seem too bad.”

“We’re higher up than the big top. We’re higher up than anything; I made damn sure that we got the highest spot. Gods know how deep it is everywhere else. And this is probably not all of it, either. We parked ourselves at the bottom of a drain.”

“How bad is it going to get?”

“I have no idea. Depends on how deep the water gets, how long it stays, and on people not churning up the soil.”

“Or we’ll get mud?”

“Yeah.”

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