Two
I woke with a gasp, surrounded by red light. What happened? Where was I? The light, Harry and Mum. Oh god. I tried to sit up and slammed against something.
Glass.
I was trapped beneath glass in a tube of some kind. I’d watched enough sci-fi movies to recognize a pod when I saw one. I was in a f*****g pod, and the air was suddenly too thin.
The oxygen was running out.
I was going to suffocate.
I needed out.
Calm down, Hope. Just calm down, or you’ll use too much oxygen and die quicker.
A bubble of laughter expanded in my chest, but I staunched it. This was not the time to lose my s**t. I needed to get out of here and get back to Mum and Harry. Even as I thought it, part of me knew that was impossible, that I was probably far away from home by now on the Arc the faceless saviors
