“We need twelve more for shuttle one,” Marie-Therese was calling over the hubbub of the crowd. “This way, quickly please, so the next shuttle can dock.”
“Everyone is leaving?” April asked.
“Nearly,” Ted said. “Essential personnel only until we get another atmospheric unit back online.”
“That won’t be soon.” At the sound of her voice April turned to see Salima holding onto a wall rung just behind her. April gave her a quick smile that widened when she saw Hakim just behind her, unhurt.
“I knew we’d rescue you!” she said, throwing her arms around him.
“He wasn’t in there,” Salima said, and April pulled back to see Hakim looking puzzled, if pleased.
“But, the Fibonacci sequence,” she said. “Someone inside was tapping it.”
“During the lull, when it seemed like we weren’t grasping the Mo
