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As the Launch picks
up momentum and approaches the crooked spout, Captain Apollo rocks the Launch
once and then puts it into a port-to-starboard barrel-roll.
The motor groans in protest, but stays in function for the
manuveur.
"Be a good little egg-beater," Boomer urges the
motor-panel before him, "Keep running."
The lower-profile keel clears a portside projectile of ruin, but
another outcropping looms to their apparent right.
But by the time the Launch is passing the starboard hazrd, the
Captain's barrel-roll has the topside tucked safely away from the stark
promatory, and the low-profile keel skims by it.
The roll-out seems to take forever, while the rubble seems to
approach all too fast.
Starbuck is highlighting the echoes as reliably as he can. And
the Captain is varying speeds to keep the revolutions of the Launch's keel
synchronized to clear the oncoming snag-hazards.
The slight centrifical force actually help Boomer and the Young
Lady retain their grips better, which is of no huge comfort to them.
At last, Apollo feints the Launch by the last snag and the craft
shoots out into more open space.
Apollo brings the Launch to stable and back onto the
predetermined course.
As the Launch proceeds into the reassuring comfort of space much
less-clauseted, Leiutenat Starbuck removes the unlit spare fumarillo, he has
a question, "Captain he says, "I take it you weren't watching the
Inquiry Channel when you came up with that one."
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