THE DEAN'S ASSASSIN
The sixty-foot dish listed violently to the left, metal grinding against metal with a high-pitched scream that shook the entire tower!
Liora screamed as the superstructure lurched beneath her feet. Her portable console skittered across the icy deck, sliding toward the edge of the platform.
"The dish is collapsing!" I yelled, grabbing the icy railing as the platform beneath my feet groaned, tilting ten degrees toward the dark ravine below.
Above me, through the cloud of freezing nitrogen and falling steel, I saw Liora scramble across the buckled deck, her hands clawing at her slipping equipment. But she wasn't reaching for the drive.