"Oh," said Steve again. Funny, that felt an awful lot like swallowing an ice cold lead weight.

But that still didn't tell him anything. Maybe he didn't actually die. Maybe he had been abducted from the prison? Maybe the entire last half of the Rockfort incident was part of some horrible dream, and there never was a T-Veronica virus and maybe Claire and his father were...

"Okay. Well, um. Thanks."