Alana needed help to move her arm, and Elaine pressed their hands together, momentarily sharing the elation as Alana and Sibilius mind-linked before stepping away to let her captain and her father have their privacy. XXNX I must’ve been seriously injured in that crash.’
Then she was too busy choking and coughing the liquid nutrients out of her lungs to think about anything. One other craft struck the water ahead of her, so she wasn’t the only one to think of this avenue of escaping death. She managed to find her voice to cry out a weak protest as the netting came up beneath her and gently raised her up and out of the tank. After the annihilation of the Arcadian expedition, a general wave of righteous indignation swept through most of the citizens of New Eden, and several ships fitted with an experimental interstellar Wormhole Drive
