Free Of Blood and Angels (The Two Moons of Rehnor, Book 3) by J. Naomi Ay Page B

here.”
    “What?”  I looked at Jerry and then back
at Senya.  “You don't see him?”
    “Katie?”  Jerry studied my face as if I
were totally insane.  “You've been at the com too long.”
    “Please, Jerry.”  I grabbed his arm. 
“Tell me, you see him!”
    “Katie, he's not here.”
    “Oh shit.”  I sank to my knees.  “He’s
almost dead again.”
    Jerry pulled out his scanner and turned it
on, running it over my head.  “Who's almost dead again, honey?”
    I closed my eyes and hugged myself.  “I
need to call Thad.  We're dark for two more days.  I've got to get a message to
Thad.  Do you know any way to get an emergency medical message out, Jerry? 
There must be something you can do?”
    “Now come on, Katie, you know I can't
break the dark.”  He ran the scanner across my back.  “Your vitals are fine but
I suggest you go right to bed.  Do you want a sleeping pill?”
    “No,” I sobbed.
    “Alright, but if you can't get to sleep
right away, ring me.  I'll cancel your next duty shift.  We'll look at my
budget later.”  He pulled me up and helped me get into the bed, tucking the
blanket around me.  “Goodnight Goldie.”
    The light flicked off and the door closed
behind him.
    “Senya, where are you?”  I stroked his arm
and his back.  It felt like the mud and dust was coming off in my hand but it
didn’t.  He wasn’t really here.  “Senya, speak to me.”
    “Bloody fucking fool,” he mumbled.
    “Who?” I cried.
    “Me,” he replied.
    “Where are you?”
    “Don't know.”  His image faded for a
moment.  My hand was stroking nothing but air.
    “Senya!”  He came back.  “Are you still on
Rozari?”
    “Not sure,” he sighed.
    “Karupatani?” I prodded.
    “Maybe.”
    “Where?”
    No response.  He faded again and didn’t
come back.
    I couldn’t sleep.  I was like a zombie at
the com four hours later and Jerry was called by Hevzi.  I was escorted back to
my cabin and tucked back into bed and then given a sleeping pill.
    “Senya's hurt,” I told Jerry.
    “You're hallucinating, Katie,” Jerry
said.  “This is deep space, weird things happen.”
    I slept until we emerged from the dark. 
The ringing vid woke me up.  It was Thad.
    “He's missing?” I cried, bolting out of
bed.
    “I couldn't ring you earlier because you
were blacked out in deep space.  I called as soon as your ship could be
reached,” Thad said calmly.
    “How long has he been gone?”
    “Twenty-two days.”
    “You tried our house?”
    “Uh, yeah.  Gosh, I think we forgot to
look under your bed though.  By the way, his car is still in the parking lot
here in Kalika-hahr.”
    “When was the last time someone saw him?”
    “It was me and like I said about three
weeks ago.  He was acting really strange.  Well, Ron is always strange, but
this was like when he's about to have a seizure.  We were walking to a meeting
in Engineering and he just took off running out the front doors of the building
and then he was gone.  I looked everywhere.  The security teams have scoured
every inch of the campus.  Your house has been turned upside and down and
shaken.  He is not here, Kate, and all of our projects are totally off schedule
now."
    “He's in Karupatani,” I said.  “We need to
go search there.”
    “Katie,” Thad looked at me doubtfully, “he
didn't take his car, he didn't take any of our limos, and he didn't take a
spaceplane.  He ditched our security team.  How exactly could he get to
Karupatani?  Walk across the ocean?”
    "He's there," I repeated. 
"He told me he would be going there sometimes."
    “What the hell would he go there for?” 
Thad sounded annoyed.  “There's nothing there.  We're talking more than three
weeks, Katie.  I know he does weird stuff periodically but it doesn't usually
last this long.  I mean, come on.  It's not like he could just drop by a mini
mart and pick up a sandwich and a bottle of water when he got hungry.  There's
no