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Looking up, he could not see the barrier at this height; it was not the smooth, pearly translucence he was used to It wasstars beyond it He’d halfway expected to find the stars were so painted on, but of course that was crazy The barrier , staring out into the near-void of space

"How are you doing, Dekka?"

"I can’t believe it’s working But Sam"

"What?"

"I’m numb, I can’t feel it, it doesn’t hurt, but I can hear the, Sa in there, Dekka"

"It’s like we’re floating through the stars," Dekka said "I’ up to heaven"

"Kind of hope we’re not," Saed pitch as speed built And there was a very stiff breeze now, pressing down on hiravity, flew and screeched

"I wish you had not found me," Toto said "I was happier alone"

"Yeah Sorry about that," Saing the wind He tried to visualize being in a car with the n How hard did that wind blohen the car was going thirty or sixty or eightythat hard now?

"Oh God, oh God, no, no, I see it, I see it!" Dekka cried and the container lurched hard and sank like a dropping elevator

It stabilized quickly and rose to once again scrape along the dome

In an unnatural voice Dekka said, "Sorry I looked It’s eating , Sa as quickly as he hoped, wouldn’t they keep some of that forward moround at terminal velocity and that would be that

It felt as if the speednow and when Sa the top of the do out Soon it would be full body contact and how long could they stand that?

Not long

As the slope lessened their speed would drop and they’d be h, Dekka," Sa us But not slowly"

"What?"

"Move your gravity field so it’s stronger at the back end and weaker at the front"

"That’s what I’ve been doing so that we’d stay tilted away from the barrier"