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The third flash was mercifully the last. They’d left me shaking and wanting to cringe against the next one, but they were replaced by the slow sound of my breathing again. My ears were working, so it seemed. My eyes were processing the flashes. That gave me hope. I tried to puzzle out how I’d ended up here, wherever ‘here’ was. I remembered a pleasant dinner and conversation, though none of the words would come to me. I was there with people I knew and people I didn’t. The dinner was important. I was meeting ... someone.Thoughts were difficult and elusive. I wished someone were there with me. I was alone here. I knew that much but not much else. I tried calling out and thought I could hear my own voice, it seemed too small, like the sound waves were bleeding off rather than carrying my voice like they should.I had the thought that I should enjoy it and take the chance to get some sleep. It was dark and I was comfortable. It seemed like the best thing to do. I was tired. A lot had. Correcting its course with reaction-control thrusters after her long-range sensors had detected a planetary system capable of supporting human life, the small vessel left her mother-ship a half-parsec behind, as one final thermo-nuclear cataclysm lit up the empty blackness behind it, and the Starship Starbride appeared in its aft-scanners no more. Silence consumed the orphaned hibernation-bay as it coasted at sub-light velocities through the darkness of interstellar space, on its way to whatever fate awaited it. With the danger of her imminent destruction averted, SAL rebooted all the automated sub-systems under her control to the algorithms written for a new list of priorities which were never expected to be needed, but which were now crucial to their very survival. A ship whose crew spent most of their journey in stasis required some way to maintain and repair itself in the absence of human involvement, so nano-robotic mechanisms supported the main engineering services, re-building.
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