Chapter 37
I couldn’t breathe properly. It was agonising and a relief and sad and right and wrong and my heart felt like it had been ripped open.
I couldn’t move and was glad I was already sitting on the floor. I wouldn’t have been able to stand right now. The news had moved on to reporting the weather on Kronos’s surface, but I wasn’t listening. Maybe I should have been, because it could affect the rescue efforts, but I was sitting and staring at nothing.
I had to pull it together. Despite what I’d just seen and heard, I knew I had to act. I had to help. Javolo — Daniel — was down on the planet buried underground and needed help.
I struggled to my feet and tried to stand without support, but the room spun crazily. I needed to wait a bit longer. It was frustrating. I was wasting time,
