Devotion
Feldis told himself he wouldn't cry on the ship away from Eden Station. With the help of an embroidery needle worked two inches deep into his thigh, he succeeded. He told himself he wouldn't show anyone - not a single member of the congregation, not the indifferent pilot, and not a single passenger- that he was dying on the inside. No one would ever know that he'd spent his final night on the station sobbing himself dry, or that he'd bent his fingernails back clawing bits of stone out of the...