6 Surak's Soul by J.M. Dillard

Author:J.M. Dillard [Dillard, J.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, High Tech
ISBN: 9780743462815
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Once in his quarters, Reed lay down with a sudden delicious sense of exhaustion, as if he wanted to sleep forever and never waken. He fell onto his bunk, all sense of embarrassment at having fainted in sickbay forgotten. He usually wasn't all that squeamish about things medical, and the fact that he'd passed out alarmed him somewhat... but at the moment, he no longer cared. He only craved rest.

And at the instant he lay down, he fell into a strange waking dream. The oceans of Oan, turquoise and beautiful, rolled over him, sweeping him away on their currents, and he opened his lungs to them and breathed in the cool, sunlit water...

And realized he was drowning. Bone-deep weakness came over him, saturated him, and he struggled against it, mentally clawing like a drowning man fights the water. He opened his eyes, and with his last fragment of strength, painfully dragged himself from his bed, and pressed his body to the bulkhead. His finger trembled as it pressed the companel control.

"Sickbay. Cutler here."

"Help me," Reed whispered, then slid down the length of the wall to the deck, and oblivion.

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