they come running up to the airlock. roby stabs the button and the inner door slides open. by the time standard is in the lock, roby is already on the intercom: faust quickly turns a couple of corners and then comes to an abrupt halt when he notices that a door leading to the lower decks has been stealthfully, dropping back into the shadows, faust presses the wall intercom and speaks into it. the creature comes flying out of the lock and deals faust a back- handed blow, knocking him across the threshold of the air lock door. roby stops himself by grabbing the edge of a doorway at the end of the hall down from the airlock. here, the wind is really terrific -- his clothes flap on his body and all kinds of things fly by -- the sound is a deafening whistle.