21
THE CABIN HAD NO window, and no data stream told us where we were. It surprised me how claustrophobic that was, in addition to the pressure suit that made me feel hot. There were also, I noticed with rising panic, no barf bags, and I felt with increasing certainty that I was going to need one.
But when I closed my eyes my vision faded to be replaced with an image of Ezhya facing me.
“What the hell?” I opened my eyes again and tried to sit up but I was too tightly strapped into my seat. I could only see the closed partition in front of my seat and even that I didn’t see very well because my vision had gone blurry. “Thayu, are you still there?”
“What’s the matter?” I could hear her voice well enough, but I couldn’t see her, because again I was seeing Ezhya instead. He looked at me sid
