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This week's chapters open with Thorn, Ralph, and Mare going back outside to replace the last thruster. It gives them some trouble.
Later, back inside, Mare gets some sleep, while the rock miners get the ship back on course. On awakening later, she receives a big meal from their geogology professor, who is also a cook.
They eventually reach Terra Station and return to school, but are pestered by reporters anxious for a story. Two weeks after returning, members of the Power Lifters Association arrive at the gym. They doubt the claims they saw in a news video that Mare was lifting 800 pounds. They learn differently.
During the Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, both Will and Mare work for Ski at the space port again.
The Spring Semester is boring until they leave for a trip to an open pit mine in February. The trip to the mine covers the remainder of chapter 7. Mare and the rock miners have a problem with being outside all day.
Chapter 8 opens after lunch with their inspection of the on site crushers and the conveyor system that moves the crushed material to the processing plant.
They spend the night at their hotel, but Mare has a real problem with all of the open space. So do the rock miners.
While looking for the exercise room the following morning, Mare and Will help move a large broken garbage bin out of the hotel. It isn't something Mare can't handle.
The remainder of that day is spent touring the concentration site, the smelter, and the refining plant to see how the raw ore is processed to remove and refine the copper and other elements in it.
Enjoy these chapters. Next week, the final chapters and the surprising ending.
Keep Well,
uncle jim