Kay stopped what she was doing for a moment when Enn tried to estimate how long it would take them to get to Eighfour and raised her gaze a bit, as though looking at some distant obstructed sky while she thought. “Three or four hours probably sound about right,” she said, trying to map out in her head just which terrain they would have to pass on their way and whether any of it would cause them significant delays. She thought there was probably a steep slope several meters down at one point, but figured that it was not that important. “And don’t worry too much about the cart; it won’t slow us down as much as you think. I built it, so I should know.”
	She set to work deploying the solar panels on top of the cart so that it could recharge Aitch and any power missing on its own internal battery, all the while listening to Enn’s description of how the sunstorm could be expected to affect the drones of the ones most immediately a threat to them and Eighfour.
	“Just confirming that they won’t have swarms of drones combing through the forest,” she shrugged. “I figure it’ll give us at least a little extra time before Eighfour is discovered, and decreases the chance of anyone noticing us.” [I]Although if anyone even glance in our direction while we’re under open sky,[/I] she thought with a grim smile, [I]the solar panels on my cart will definitely get their attention.[/I] “But now that you’ve mentioned it, I almost hope we happen across an Anderekian drone! Even if it turned out that I can’t make it work for us somehow, I could at least strip it of some pretty useful parts.”

	She smiled at him as she went to the handlebar at the back of her cart, its electric engine now turned on to make pushing it nearly effortless as long as the terrain was not too rough. “Shall we get going?”