 How would you describe the pace of the characters, and why?
Hathaway only knew he was picked up and hurled against a lever-bank, and that Marnagan wasn't long in following, swearing loud words. They both waited, thrust against the shipside and held by a hand of gravity; listening to each other's breathing hard in the earphones. Hathaway felt himself grabbed; he and Marnagan rattled around—human dice in a croupier's cup. They stood in the middle of a pocked, time-eroded meteor plain that stretched off, dipping down into silent indigo and a rash of stars. Montage. Super-gravity and a couple of well-tossed meteors. "Your express purpose on this voyage, Hathaway, is taking films to be used by the Patrol later for teaching Junior Patrolmen how to act in tough spots.
 Quickly. The characters were under a time constraint, depleting air, and were encountering additional threats that made them move with haste.
 Quickly. The characters were under a time constraint, depleting air, and were encountering additional threats that made them move with haste.  At a sprint. The characters were so scared that they were rushing decisions and they weren't thinking logically.  Average. Though the characters were concerned for their survival, they were taking things at a normal pace because they thought they could be rescued.  Slowly. The characters didn't want to endanger themselves further in the situation so they tried to think everything through fully.