Chapter 13 – Mercury
Dale's consciousness returned, and he opened his eyes. The view was strange—there was a jagged piece of metal a few feet away, and then the blackness of space. There was a feeling of gravity. It pulled from behind, which meant he was on his back. There was no sense of motion, so he deduced he was actually on Mercury, not in space. Annora had apparently managed to put them on the surface alive.
Her head popped up in front of his face, and she peered at him through the windows of their spacesuits. “Easy. You're hurt.”
“I am?” Dale tilted his head up a little.
He lay on the floor of the cockpit. Bits of metal and polymer were scattered all around. A shard of twisted metal stuck out from his abdomen. Annora's gloved hand was on the wound, probably applying pressure to
