Ptc | Velocity

At 22.5 kph, her suit’s outer layer began to ice-crack and slough off in sheets. She didn’t care. The PTC was dead, but she was alive.

At 21 kph, the station’s beacon appeared: a red dot on her visor, one kilometer away. velocity ptc

Mira lay on the grated floor, her suit smoking from differential stress, her lips cracked, her core temperature 36.8°C and rising. At 22.5 kph

Mira had three hours to reach the abandoned geothermic station. Three hours to cross twelve kilometers of a carbon-dioxide ice field. Three hours of running. her suit smoking from differential stress