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Even though she’d been checked out and the medical AI had said her condition would ease, a few days later Jess was feeling no better. In fact, she was feeling decidedly worse. The feelings of stomach discomfort had increased to actual nausea and she felt hot all over, the kind of clammy hot all over that didn’t bode well.
Groaning, she turned on her side and looked toward the door of her bedroom. She’d returned to lie down after lunch, but the nap hadn’t done her any good. Instead, now she was seriously worried. Something was wrong. Very, very wrong. She needed to go to the medbay.
Her entire body ached as she pulled herself to the edge of the bed. The effort made her light-headed, shivers running over her skin as she made her way to the door. The room spun around her, the walls movin
