Chapter 18

• As Emerald lay in the sickbay, attempting once more to coerce sleep into coming, the entrance door quietly slid open. Knowing that the nurse had informed her she wouldn't return for another hour, Emerald assumed it was Annie.
• "Annie?" she called softly, reaching for the curtain that separated her from the rest of the room. "I'm here."
• There was no reply, which immediately brought Dylan Lock's ominous warning to the front of her mind. Quickly abandoning her plan to open the curtain, she considered the possibility that it wasn't Annie after all.