Drake walked onto the bridge and sank into his chair, rubbing at his temples to try and ease the pounding headache which never seemed far away now.
“Captain!” Said Sonia. “It’s great news about the patients. I heard eleven of them have woken from comas.”
“Twelve now. We just managed to pull one more out. The spices Jacobs experimented with really seem to be working.”
“It’s amazing, isn’t it? I know they’re not out of the woods yet but it’s a great start.”
Drake nodded. In truth only five had recovered in the normal way. Another seven, including Travis, had been pulled out by his linking them to the Azimuth.
Of those Drake felt one might never fully accept the situation and would either slip back into dreamless sleep or descend into madness. But the others… there seemed to be ho
