Chapter Twenty-One
Takashi
Tak had bounded through the cities of Luna and Mars, floated through the massive cavernous towns carved out of asteroids in the belt, peered out of the windows of the floating villages of Venus. But his favorite place was this: the vacuum of space. He loved the feeling of being detached from everything.
Of course, they weren’t detached from everything. If they were, Barnacle Town would go speeding away from them with the rotation of the space station. They were proceeding in pairs along a tether that had been installed for the use of the deconstruction crew; it led straight to Barnacle Town and then up the side. Tak and the others were still feeling the effects of the station’s centripetal force, albeit backwards from what would be convenient. They made their
