Chapter 20
I worked until late. We treated about fifty men, far below our target. But every time we pressed the override routine, the computer would freeze. I spoke to Systems; they said they'd fix it. They didn't. I spoke to Captain Mayfair. I think she blasted them, but fix the problem, it didn't.
Eventually, Julia came up to me and threatened that if I didn't go to bed that very instant, she'd report me for unsafe work practices. I went to my cabin, and barely conscious, changed into my pyjamas and crashed into bed.
I woke up in the night to a thud somewhere on a wall, outside my cabin. I sat up in my bunk, staring at the long shadows cast on the opposite wall by the tiny light on the room comm. Air hissed out of the ceiling vent; the floor vibrated ever so slightly from the engines.
