The barrier's limits

With all the damage to the maglev's system, steering it or raising the speed was no longer as easy of a task as it was before. From a course that could ride the winds, the hovercraft turned into a heavy, metal ball that somehow continued to defy the simplest laws of gravity and abuse them to move. 

"Shit, they are getting closer!" 

With the view of the rear displayed on one of the maglev's secondary displays, I didn't even need to look back to confirm it. Looking back, in the first place, made absolutely no sense given how the long, wide window that stretched throughout the hovercraft's circumference didn't reach as far as the entry ramp. 

In short words, the rearview displayed on the maglev's windows was the only way for us to check just how much leeway we had left. 

And to put it blankly, we had none. 

'If they get any closer, we will get in range of their attacks,' I thought, basing this decision on the attacks our vehicle endured thus far.