Chapter 6
None of the yellow Invalid systems had flashed back over to orange by the time Sue got back to her chilly, cramped command pod. Tima reassured her that no new orange lights had popped up, either.
But Tima’s fidgety stance and restless eyes gave the bad news away before she’d finished talking.
Three more crew members had shown up missing. And Invalid.
Eight thousand seven hundred forty-nine, when there should be eight thousand seven hundred fifty-four.
As soon as Tima left, Sue slapped the command override for silence and no interruptions into effect again, relieved a thousand times over that she’d sent Evans off-duty to take Liam home to his own pod for the night-cycle.
A boy that age didn’t need to stay alone, or hear the words she muttered as she read the crewmember notes
