CHAPTER 19
“It wasn’t your fault, Darren. You did as you were ordered. It wasn’t your fault.”
From somewhere in the distance, I could hear Doctor Ling’s concerned voice call out to me. I was still in the lift, but whether we had gotten on seconds ago or hours, I couldn’t tell. It felt as though the fabric of my life was being ripped at the seams and rewoven at random intervals. I had no sense of bearing. Memories rose and crashed through my skull as realistically as though it were real life. One minute I was on Big Red, fighting for my life, and the next I was back on Terra. I couldn’t make sense of the conflicting images.
“He’s losing cohesion,” a fading, echoing voice called out from somewhere. Far away, far from my location, a familiar-looking doctor shone a light into a set of eyes,
