Chapter 50
Jess woke in a panic, heart hammering in his chest. For a few moments he struggled to work out where he was. He relaxed as the familiar surroundings of the flight deck registered.
The nightmare he’d woken from was already fading from his memory. He’d been back in the world of the Wanderer’s systems, fighting the Taint again. Ali had been there. But had she been helping or attacking him? He couldn’t remember.
He’d been asleep for six hours. The Wanderer assured him that nothing had happened in that time. The ship had started to repair itself. Teeko was resting in its bath. Ali, Dash and Ben were still locked away inside their shimmering prisons. Everything seemed under control, for the moment at least.
Hunger gnawed at Jess, but the thought of heading to the living
