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Stealthily Deanne picked her way from shadow to shadow toward the smooth walled depression, her feet scarcely touching the planetoid's riven surface in the slight gravity. Yards from it, she got to her stomach and crawled to the lip, peered over.
Every muscle in her body went tense as she saw the hidden hatch at the crater's bottom sliding soundlessly closed.