7
MELATI PULLED OFF the helmet. The breeze from the air vent made her face cold and she hadn’t realised how hot she’d been.
Both Dr Chee and Jas were in the room, staring at her, two pale, wide-eyed ovals in the darkness.
“What’s going on?” Dr Chee asked. “What did you see?”
“There is a worm.” She was taking great gasps of breath. Her mind was all muddled and she was still trying to work out which of the images she had seen had happened to her and which were part of the memory. “He brought it in here in his mindbase. It’s going to destroy the ship. It’s too late trying to stop it. We have to tell Dixon about it, but probably it’s already too late.” She tried to push herself up, but her hands were so sweaty that they slipped off the armrests of the chair.
“Melati, calm down. That’s why
