Nothing. Carter felt nothing. She didn't feel pain, she didn't feel anything at all. She seemed to be floating in the darkness, though her eyes were closed. She could feel a bed under her, with soft covers pulled up around her.
She had felt this before. She had felt absolutely nothing when she had learned Joey was dead, when she had escaped the fire Athena had set. Her body, her heart, had felt nothing. Carter couldn't think, she could barely breathe. There was just absolutely nothing.
But this time, Carter clung to it. She clung to the nothingness, wanting to just stay there. She wanted to never open her eyes again because she knew what she would see when she opened her eyes: pain.
She would see a gray sky and rain. She would see sad faces and injured fighters. Carter would
