The tunnel snaked right and they cautiously followed it round into a wider area that caused them all to stop and stare. Lexi wandered to the front of the group, her legs taking her forward of their own accord as she stared up at the breathtaking ceiling. A giant glass dome shielded them from space and left nothing to the imagination. It was like standing inside a transparent golf ball, or one of those spheres that children put hamsters inside of. The vast, star-pocked darkness of space seemed to bear down on them like the crushing thumb of a god. Even as a cosmonaut, Lexi had never stood on
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