She didn"t ask if he"d been prompted to offer, and she wondered who"d originated the idea.
Probably the Prime Minister Custos Messium himself.
The more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that he had.
* * *
“More them likely, it was the chemolithotrophs that saved you,” the doctor said.
Jack, Misty, and Cherise exchanged glances, none of them having realized how close to death they"d come.
“The volcanic gasses are noxious, certainly, but it"s specifically the carbon monoxide that"s lethal. It"s colorless and odorless. It binds with the available oxygen in the air until there"s nothing to breathe. For a person in an enclosed environment, such as a room, an increasing lassitude sets in, followed by somnolence, and then sleep, quickly followed by unconsciousness and death.
