"Break the glass, Rowan! If you can hear me, smash the damn tube!" I screamed, my voice muffled by the viscous, oxygenated amber fluid filling my throat.Rowan didn't move. He couldn't. His body, suspended in the pod opposite mine, looked like a disassembled clock his limbs held in place by magnetic gantry arms, his chest cavity open to reveal a pulsing, crystalline heart that beat with a rhythmic blue light. His hazel eyes were wide, darting toward me in a silent, agonizing plea."He can’t hear you, Seventeen," the woman said, her voice echoing through the comms-link in my skull. She leaned against my pod, tapping a stylus against the glass. "And even if he could, he doesn't have the motor function to blink, let alone break a reinforced polymer casing designed to withstand deep-space pressure."I stared at th
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