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Natalie
Interplanetary transport gave a whole new meaning to “jet lag”. My head felt heavy and cloudy as I fought my way out of slumber. The chair I sat in was pressed to the side of Roark’s healing pod, and I lifted my head quickly to make sure he was still all right, still healing. But the transparent screen must have had another layer because I couldn’t see him anymore. The window into the pod was covered in a thick black screen. I couldn’t even tell if he was still in there. The machine still hummed beneath my arms though.
I leaned back and tried to look at the controls I’d seen the doctor using earlier. They looked all right, but I had no idea what any of it meant. It wasn’t like on Earth, with a heartbeat monitor and a blood pressure reading up in one corner, beeping to indicat
