Just like that He is gone and I am lying in a broken heap on the floor, crying for everything I have ever lost, everything I will ever lose again. Crying like a...

“Captain? Are you there? We’re coming over to pick you up. We’re...”
“You better be a-fucking-live in there Captain cause I’m gonna come in there and kick your ass. When I say I want to die with you, I mean it. I will not let a superior officer sacrifice himself on my behalf!”
“Kliim, that is enough. He is alive...Though he is...different.”

And I can hear her thought, “Now sleep.” And I obey.
(continued below)

I awaken somewhere new. Everything is white, blank. Maybe I did die after all. Well if I did die, then this sure as hell isn’t hell, so maybe it’s okay. But wait, I recognize that green hair. Aw shit. This isn’t heaven and those aren’t angels...

But, this isn’t my ship. I know that, just as I know that Kliim is uncomfortable because this ship is too short for him and Gimli is amazed with that scientific awe that he gets. Amelie and Sadie? They are talking, no thinking with some shrouded being. I look around the room and count three of those mummy things. Who are they? Where am I?

I sit up and attempt to say, “What in the hell is going on?” Instead I squeak something like,
"Wha....He...NNNN"

And then, I look down at my chest.

Fin.