10 TIME FOR A NAP
2254 A.D. DAY 367 OUT of Tau Ceti
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FIDO AND DIXIE SEEMED to be aware of the time being short. They had grown increasingly insistent on getting my attention over the last couple of weeks. Fido refused to leave my side, and I could not walk to the bathroom without tripping over Dixie. Either they were keeping accurate track of time passage, or they were snooping into my correspondence again. It was a toss-up on which.
In the next day or two, I would be going down for a twenty-year nap in a nearby Hibernation pod. Meanwhile, I needed to get all my affairs in order and fix any problems that needed fixing.
My node was activated, and I opened a message from Tom. He was notifying me that the grav-sled was ready for a test run, and wondered if I was interested in bei
