Awakening (4)

"Fucking move it!"

Dashing through the busy noon street of Kingstead Terra almost ran along the walls as she avoided the nonchalant morning traffic. With a large smile on her face, the hellwalker cadet leapt cleanly over a two story building as she closed in on the city centre. Leaping from building top to building top Terra closed in on the central compound, meanwhile Dax and Lilly were travelling back towards Kingstead at top speed.

"We're so high up, why is the sky all dark up here?"

"Because there is no sky, the atmosphere is what makes the sky blue and shatters the sunlight, without it space is cold, dark and empty. That means life is impossible up here, while it is either cold or hot enough to kill you in seconds, heat radiates away from crafts so slowly that they need specialized equipment to not cook their occupants."