Chapter Eight
Sergi lay on the bed in the room that La’Rue had shown him earlier. He stared up at the ceiling; his mind was processing everything that had happened since he woke in the emergency pod. The memories of what had happened before were fragmented. He remembered everything up to the point when he hit the cable.
Frustration ate at him. He knew a little of what had happened after he’d passed out, thanks to Mei’s video. There would be no going home. The Gliese 581 was gone, and he suspected the gateway they had traveled through was, too.
There was only one option left – adapting and learning to survive in a possibly hostile alien world. Well, not completely hostile. He had found La’Rue.
Unable to sleep, Sergi sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He had never felt a
