She lost the battle and hung her head over the bucket as her stomach spasmed, but there was little left to eject, and she endured yet another round of painful, mostly dry heaves. The episode passed, and she slumped back against the wall and closed her eyes, hoping that when she opened them, she would find it had all been a bad dream. But that didn’t happen.The others slumped beside her, each girl clutching her own bucket, the odors rising from the open pails combining to produce an oppressive miasma in the dead air of the container. Cassie judged it was near midday, because the temperature in the container had risen steadily since the first bit of light began leaking through the holes high up on the container walls. It wasn’t much light, barely enough for her to make out the other girls only a few feet away from her. Tanya was the worst off — the seasickness had hit her almost immediately, and she’d vomited on the container floor before she could make it to one of the buckets. The blond girl, Karina, seemed least effected, and as Cassie looked at her, Karina nodded and produced a wan smile.“I think we will survive, da?”“I … I guess so,”
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