For the first time in his life, Jonah experienced the pain of wanting to talk but physically being stopped from being able to.
The longest period of silence yet had followed the end of the transmission, during which all of the commanders had collapsed to their seats and lost themselves in the turbulent seas of their thoughts.
The Bishop was hit the hardest. She remained standing, staring at the spot where the transmission had been and looking like she was waiting for it to come back and reveal that it had all been a prank.
This was the first time he was seeing her so unhinged, but if the sudden loss of a force many times stronger than the first wave didn't faze her, then nothing would.
Her lips kept opening and closing as if she wanted to say something, and those eyes that had enjoyed his pain so many times were now filled with the unwillingness to accept reality.
