Alex’s Point of View
My brother Ben had a knack for ruining intimate moments with his constant needy interruptions, but today that interruption was welcome. I almost released a breath of relief when my brother pinged a message to me through the echosphere, asking me to urgently come back to the lab. He sent these messages pretty regularly, so usually I wasn’t too worried, but with everything else that had happened in the last week or so, even he had me a little worried.
“Everything okay?” Ali asked, still curled up under the blanket beside me in bed. She barely lifted her head, the sleep still eminent in her eyes as she struggled to stay awake. She had just been drifting off for a nap when the text had buzzed her awake and I felt a little extra guilty in that moment. She’d been through
