Chapter SixJAS HAD RARELY FELT as bad as she did at that moment. She was naked and lying down under a blanket in the Ganymede Outpost’s medical center, waiting to receive the mythranil that might or might not send her to the place the Paths came from. But she didn’t feel bad because she feared what was about to happen. More than becoming addicted to the powerful narcotic, more than getting lost in that place beyond the physical universe, more than dying, in fact, she feared never having the opportunity to set Carl straight about what he meant to her.
Ever since the trauma she’d experienced when she’d been at training college in Antarctica, she’d had a certain approach to relationships. She hadn’t shied away from them entirely, but when someone was interested in her, she was always careful
