All that I long for is faded and gone.I wander here in anguish, lonely and sad.
The sun has gone from my heaven.
And I must languish here in this loveless place.
—From the song “I want what I have not,” poem by Bohdan Zaleski,
music by Frédéric Chopin
Chapter 15Thursday 18 March
The small windows surrounded him in a circle of unblinking glass eyes. The pressure continued to increase; he could tell by his ears and skull. Not like flying at altitude, more like scuba diving. He was falling fast, with flotsam from shipwrecks floating by. Callie Cadden’s terrified face was plastered against a window as if adhered by a suction cup. Calvin Cadden soon followed at another window, his small hands scratching at the glass. A sound Drayco heard behind him added to the eerie symphony, and he turn
