I don’t move as I try to figure out what’s happening All around me the other kids are running and screaming They don’t get very FAR Most of them trip and end up on the floor with me The spaceship shakes I’m one of the teen officers in charge of passengers It’s my job to take care of them But when I try to cLimB back to my feet I’m too dizzy The room spins around me
What’s going on Gabriel the blonde girl next to me asks Her name is Misty Everest I know her from my other life The one I had on Earth before I was ordered to give up everything to cLimB on this spaceship bound for the first successful colony on Mars
We were in high school together back in Texas one of the most overcrowded places on the whole overcrowded planet Selecting teenagers to join the Mars colony that was started twenty years ago is supposed to help with that
