Someone’s coming,” called Loobie from the corridor, where she was acting as lookout. “What… what should I do?” asked Finfth. With a last look to check the cryo pod had entered the emergency thaw process, Indiya turned round to tell Finfth that the most useful thing he could do right now would be to grow a pair. But when she saw Finfth and Fant straining hard to prop up the enormous bulk of the dead Marine, she didn’t have the heart. We’re not all heroes like McEwan, she thought. Finfth is terrified. Maybe that makes him the biggest hero of all, because he’s still here. “Hide him out of sight, best you can,” she suggested, wishing Furn had been able to free himself from his duties and lend his cunning brain. She looked around the cryo chamber. It was just as well that the sleeping residents never complained about the lack of space. Banks of cryo pods were crammed into six levels, each serviced by metal grid walkways.
