He shakes his head, then raises his shoulders in a shrug. Everything hurts less than it had a few minutes earlier, when even moving much had seemed like a bad proposition. He might be able to start moving to rejoin the other group again soon.
"I can't say that we really know. If it's Gallagher, something seems to have happened to him around the time of the first jump.
"I'd hate to think that Smiley is a ghost -- it would be ridiculous -- although all of this does sometimes seem to have aspects of a classic haunting, almost to a stereotypical degree. In the real world, wouldn't that usually be a cover for something? It's hard to believe that the ship might be full of 'angry spirits,' " (he doesn't cover his sarcasm there), "or that the captain might have somehow merged with it... it sounds like a bad movie.
"The trouble is, if we're dealing with something like multiple timelines or overlapping realities, everything becomes a lot more..." His words trail off.
The problem with Darcy's face comes on suddenly: it's like black oil has appeared under her skin, blurring and obscuring her features, threatening to remake them. It initially seems like a trick of the poor lighting, or of what had just happened to him, and it causes him to peer at her, squinting.
It's alarming when you're not expecting it, he thinks, but it would be worse if you had no idea what it was, if you had never seen anything like it before.
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"I can't say that we really know. If it's Gallagher, something seems to have happened to him around the time of the first jump.
"I'd hate to think that Smiley is a ghost -- it would be ridiculous -- although all of this does sometimes seem to have aspects of a classic haunting, almost to a stereotypical degree. In the real world, wouldn't that usually be a cover for something? It's hard to believe that the ship might be full of 'angry spirits,' " (he doesn't cover his sarcasm there), "or that the captain might have somehow merged with it... it sounds like a bad movie.
"The trouble is, if we're dealing with something like multiple timelines or overlapping realities, everything becomes a lot more..." His words trail off.
The problem with Darcy's face comes on suddenly: it's like black oil has appeared under her skin, blurring and obscuring her features, threatening to remake them. It initially seems like a trick of the poor lighting, or of what had just happened to him, and it causes him to peer at her, squinting.
It's alarming when you're not expecting it, he thinks, but it would be worse if you had no idea what it was, if you had never seen anything like it before.