Dream Dancer (2016)
“He knew it intellectually, genetically and experientially: all men die. Very likely, it was the only thing of consequence besides being born which all men shared.
Then why, every time he returned safely from space, was he so relieved? He was not one percentage point less safe in a cruiser than in Draconis, or in Lorelie, or than he would have been had his race decided not to opt for the orbital crap-shoot rather than the planetary.
Yet, on every cruise, on this one most particularly, the old crone with the cold breath and phantom drool cackled subliminally in his ear, as if her fearsome head were laid on his very pillow.
He shook off the maudlin, bony hand ever upon his shoulder of late, and opened his eyes. For a moment, the silence, the cessation of vibration, shiver and blink which indicated that the cruiser was powered down, had overwhelmed him. A paean of joy is quietude, a moment free of fear is worth the world.
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