Chapter 32
By the time Kerwin finished explaining everything they’d learned about Ajar 12 to Cory, he’d managed to sit, unclench his fists, and even breathe regularly. Seetha wondered if he felt the same surging relief she did.
Once the mental door was open and she’d made her decision, walking through seemed a lot easier and safer than trying to stop.
Cory’s dark purple central mass, much broader than Les’s, took up most of the comm screen. Hir expression was impossible to read, and Seetha couldn’t see enough of hir body to tell if ze was shifting back and forth.
Les still floated calmly, so between hir and Kerwin, Seetha constantly reminded herself that calm was how she needed to stay, too.
“The situation on Ajar and throughout the system is indeed far more serious than I was told,”
