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I can’t--

I have to get past that door, and for the first tiht on the LaRoux lambda embroidered on the blankets, I think I kno I have to do it soon I don’t think I have ines I’ less than truthful, then you want ree, hypothetically, that there may exist some reason for you to conceal the truth"

"Hypothetically"

"It means conditionally, conceivably"

"I knohat the word means"

THIRTY-EIGHT

TARVER

IT’S LATE WHEN I MAKE MY WAY back across the clearing, head clearer, step surer There’s sos that helps h into the comms room, it’s empty--but different

The monitors, usually black, are lit up like a city skyline, blinking inco across the controls We’ve got power Proper power, not whatever we’ve been squeezing out of the backup power et through the door, into the locked roo to find a way in, hoping for soot the door open, why didn’t she coe: the canteen dissolving to dust

Stay cal down onto the top rung of the ladder I can hearinsome stupid, impossible jump to reach her faster Keep yourself safe, he bellows at rave on another planet far away You can’t help anybody else if you’re in pieces Don’t rush in

But I can’t help it I scra the stab of pain as I twist hts are on, and I hurlaround the corner

The round door is open