Sappho Chapter 1
Sappho Chapter 1 I lurched into consciousness under a sea of flashing red alarms. As the hibernation pod rushed me back to life, my brain overcame its torpor at the emergency rate, which is to say, pretty slow. Awareness evolved gradually as the pumps replaced the thin preservative in my veins with blood; uncritical observation of the pretty, pretty lights above me became curiosity, then unease before finally resolving in horror as I realized the crisis in my ship. When the pod...