“For a certain kind of person, the delightfulness of those walkways never wears off. But there was, he sensed, nothing remotely magical or enchanted about what was happening under that yellow-green smear. Simpler to build vents up through the ice, and encourage a chemoautotrophic ecosystem to feed off the methane, and deliver it to higher levels. But I didn’t like the idea that my only way off this wretched moon was thousands of kilometres away and depended on a complicated series of rendezvous and coupling manoeuvres.
It was a slab of ice that appeared to span the crevasse. Poole encouraged her more than Dzik did, but even that wasn’t much. Glancing at his IWC Flieger Chrono aviator’s watch, he noted that he should arrive there ten minutes before his daily appointment with the therapist. “To float around Titan in a balloon! Not very energetic for a man who builds interplanetary wormholes, Poole.
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