Fanfic: Worm/The War of the Worlds - The Martian Part VIII

Continuing my Worm / War of the Worlds crossover story. Another fairly short chapter to end the first day of the story.

The previous chapters are archived on these sites:
On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=33872
On AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39112812
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14083560/1/The-Martian
On Spacebattles Forum - https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-martian-worm-the-war-of-the-worlds-au.1034761/

See chapter I for disclaimers.

( VIII - Podkayne of Mars )

Comments please before I post to archives.