It's like someone just kicked him in the chest. That feeling of sudden breathlessness. Like the bottom dropped out of his world. His heart hammering in his ears, and the mental shields of stars and clouds cracking in a bolt of lightning.

Half of him is crying out for Pidge. She needs to know. She needs to be here. He's calling out to her through their own link even as his feet pick up their pace. Sprinting, now.

"Matt?!"

Incredulous. Shouting down the halls toward the place everyone woke.