Chapter Eight
Ethan and Garwin were cleaning the second flitter the colonists had managed to unearth, while Cherry made preparations for another trip to the crash site. Garwin had suggested that they use two flitters when they returned to their task of cutting through the Nova Fortuna’s hull. If one of the machines failed, they could use the other one to rescue whoever went down with it.
Ethan, Garwin, and Cherry had arrived back at the settlement the previous night chilled to the bone from their night ride in wet clothes after failing to break into the colony ship. The hull that had been designed and manufactured to remain intact throughout nearly two hundred years of deep space travel was not to be breached easily. Yet because the ship presented a better prospect for salvage than the w
