Chapter 20

Among the many things playing on my mind (playing seems far too light a word—torturing is much more apt), potential death was not as high as I would have thought. Perhaps the immediacy and unexpectedness of the deaths of James, Brendan and Sadie came as something of a comfort, a release from the pent up agony of being stuck on board the Athena. Whatever it was, it played second fiddle—or third, fourth, or perhaps it was just at the back on the triangle—to the other things that ate away at me...