Chapter Twenty-Four
Takashi
Tak had forgotten that after the detonation they would all be weightless. People all around him were crying out, holding on to whatever they could reach. The buildings had been anchored down to the cargo hold floor, but the plants and paving stones, all the objects in the schoolroom and bathhouse, and everything the rikishi owned was floating free. Worse, the sand from the arena was everywhere. How had it spread so fast?
Tak, still near the door, was able to see in the red glow of the emergency light, but further in the people were floating in darkness. The lights would come on when they fired up the engines. What were they waiting for?
“We should move among the people, try to keep them calm,” Kenko said to the other rikishi.
“Keep them calm?” one of the yo
