I’m doing this thing now where I just sit down and write at the same time every day. Like many annoying things, it works. Whether it’ll still be working three weeks from now is the question for the age.
“She was wearing a suit,” one witness volunteered. “A surface suit, with the sunshade down. I saw her right by the elevator, so I figured there was some kind of thing going on topside. People are always using it to get to the airlocks.”
“How many of them have a sealed suit on when they do?” Tobias asked.
The witness looked at him, then shifted her eyes to focus on the slightly wheezing air duct on the wall. Tobias had also noted that, and had entered it at the bottom of the station’s maintenance list. The very, very long maintenance list. “More people than you’d think,” she said. “I figure in a month or two we’ll all be going around wearing unsealed suits. You know. Just in case.”
She overestimates the probability, Commander, Asenath whispered in his head. There is a 60% chance that such a scenario will not occur for at least three months. And the chance that this site will lose environmental security before the Lifeboat becomes ready is no more than 15%.