Day 2
29:31I don’t think any of us got some proper sleep. We ignored the schedule and all slept together in Bastian’s bedroom, the biggest of them all. Jim and Jordan slept on the floor; they’d already had their fill of Louise, as Han put it. The others got their fill on the bed; a desperate lovemaking that had something of a finality that made my heart ache deeply in the moments before I fell into a restless sleep. Their closeness helped, the way their bodies surrounded me, but whenever I woke, their warmth just reminded me that their lives may be extinguished soon and they’d turn into the same cold, rotten corpses I’d seen all my former crewmates become. At least I wouldn’t be around to see it this time. I’d be dead as well, united in death. Maybe there was an afterlife that would let u
