[It's hard for PM to accept this isn't all a nightmare.]
[For a sold minute she stood there, shaking WV's slumbering body and pleading with him to wake up, alarmed when he doesn't awake. It's only after she checks for breathing and the hole in her chest that her panic stops rising. After carefully tucking him back in, she stumbled into AR's room, making sure his head was still firmly attached to his body before she repeated the process of gently shaking him and whispering his name.]
[She goes to check on Castell, and then she is afraid that he is dead, because it's hard to tell when a lobster is breathing, but she leaves him in the tank and hurries back to her room.]
[Moving with purpose, she gathers up her sword and communicator, and steps outside as she both broadcasts and calls out to the darkness of the dome. She almost expects to see familiar sights of horrorterrors and dream bubbles floating in the abyss, but that is a trick of memory--there is nothing.]