Chapter One

The embryonic fluid sloshed out of the pod, splashing down onto the grates. The liquid was cold, as was the tubes that stretched down the throat into the stomach, the various thick needles that were stuck to the body at all the major pressure points. The shock of waking up, cold, with something snaking down into the stomach was too much to bare if one had not done it often, or at all in this case.

Joseph Cara, a former Mars geologist, woke from a 23 month hiber. . .

Chapter One

The embryonic fluid sloshed out of the pod, splashing down onto the grates. The liquid was cold, as was the tubes that stretched down the throat into the stomach, the various thick needles that were stuck to the body at all the major pressure points. The shock of waking up, cold, with something snaking down into the stomach was too much to bare if one had not done it often, or at all in this case.

Joseph Cara, a former Mars geologist, woke from a 23 month hiber. . .