Plague Wars 06: Comes the Destroyer
“Despite the biogel lining that eliminated all hot spots and kept bedsores from forming under acceleration, he felt like hell. The thing stank, too; he’d been told to expect that. He’d have thought he’d gotten used to it after almost a year in space, even if he had been asleep most of the time.
Fortunately he’d only experienced three subjective days. Between the chips in his head and the computers in his Aardvark, his sense of passing time had been slowed to the point where this confined space s...eemed merely irritating rather than unbearable.
Hitting the Decant control caused gravity to come on and the gel to begin draining away, leaving him nude and standing in a cramped shower-like stall. Once he pulled the connectors out of his cranial sockets and put their caps back in, he turned on a spray of gloriously hot water and washed himself thoroughly. It was likely the only such he was going to have unless he survived and returned from this mission.
Reluctantly he stepped out, driven by duty and also by the vaguely unsettled feeling of being unlinked.MoreLess
Fortunately he’d only experienced three subjective days. Between the chips in his head and the computers in his Aardvark, his sense of passing time had been slowed to the point where this confined space s...eemed merely irritating rather than unbearable.
Hitting the Decant control caused gravity to come on and the gel to begin draining away, leaving him nude and standing in a cramped shower-like stall. Once he pulled the connectors out of his cranial sockets and put their caps back in, he turned on a spray of gloriously hot water and washed himself thoroughly. It was likely the only such he was going to have unless he survived and returned from this mission.
Reluctantly he stepped out, driven by duty and also by the vaguely unsettled feeling of being unlinked.MoreLess
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