He doesn't move his hand, though he does tighten his fingers around hers slightly. "I don't know," he replies, just as breathless. "It takes hours to leave orbit. And during the launch we'd have been subject to immense g-force. We would... feel something now. Even if we were being kept unconscious during the launch."

He shakes his head. "I'm not even thirsty. And... I don't think that's Earth."

Saying it aloud makes it sink in. Traveling to another solar system would take decades, if not centuries. "Where are we?"