Emily floated between awareness and emptiness in an odd haze. Now the agony was subdued, far-off, as if it belonged to another person. Though she could not concentrate on any of them, echoes of voices—Liam's, Daniel's, even Victor's—fluttered in and out of her head. She hung in between, caught in a vacuum.
She was abruptly dragged from the blackness by a piercing sound. Her eyes opened and she gasped, her breath short and erratic. The planet arrived screaming back in waves of agonising agony. She was resting on a cold, hard surface, her body feeling as if it had been broken and then rebuilt all incorrectly.
With a desperate look, Liam's face swam into view above her. "Emily! Thank God!“ His voice faltered and he stared with raw fear—the type she had never seen before.
She attempted to s
