Chapter Twenty-One
The next morning, Skeeter sat in the chair in the medical unit waiting for Krac. She had woken up feeling much better physically. Emotionally, she was still a wreck. Toolas told her that she was being given the all clear to return to the Lulu Belle. Every time she thought about the freighter, she thought about Frog and her eyes would fill with tears.
Poor Toolas had sat with her for nearly an hour and talked with her about her grief, explaining that it was natural and healthy to cry for someone she cared about. She had listened carefully to what the healer was saying. Even though she had dealt with her parents dying, she had been very young. This was really the first time that someone she had really cared about since she was grown had died. The fact that Frog died prot
