Chapter 17
Kate stuck her head outside the portal and inspected the problem carefully. Pulling her head back in, she put a loop in the belt. It was the tail end of a deeply ruddy sunset, almost full dark now. The jailor’s body was completely lost in the shadows below. But since she could either see, or do—insufficient room to do both at once out the inspection hatch—it didn’t really matter.
More by luck than skill she managed to snag the handle on the cargo container’s door that the stevedore-jailor had died to open. She hauled it back into place, even managed to reseat it on the latch. A quick shake and she freed the belt and handed it back to Harold.
“Did you just lock us back in?”
Kate nodded, “Halfway anyway. Even with your belt, I had no way to unlock the second handle; there’s a
