And speaking of noise, she built a wall around her mind to block the thoughts and feelings of the crew. She didn’t need their turmoil in addition to her own. Dulling her telepathic senses to such an extreme degree left her floating in an eerie silence, but it was necessary. Though being alone with her own thoughts was almost as bad as anything she might pick up from an engineer who walked past her door.
She wished that she could erase her memories of the last twenty-four hours. Keli had been in combat situations before. She had been sure that she could handle it, but what she had experienced yesterday was something else entirely. So much pain and death and hatred and fear. It was like wading through a filthy swamp.
Curled up on the couch in shorts and a tank-top, she burrowed under her b
