The long sleep...
27 Nov 2020Synthya Wylder
Hours passed, then, days. So many attempts to reach someone, anyone on the comms... She fumbled to reach the medkit again, carefully arranging the series of injections which would place her in a deep drug-induced coma, designed to prolong her life pod's very limited life-support. She was vaguely aware of the lights of the instruments slowly dimming, the increasing cold... the faint chirping of the auto-distress call growing ever more faint...Her last conscious thoughts were of her physics lessons, the law of conservation of energy - "...energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another."
She took comfort in her belief that, she could never actually die, & her consciousness took flight among the emptiness of space....