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Derelict vessel
Location unknown
Date unknown
It took them more than thirty minutes using the steel staircase from the platform to get to the deck with its rows of sealed hyper-sleep pods, twelve wide, lost in the dimly lit deck toward the distant wall probably a few hundred meters away.
Nick was breathing hard and his heart beat faster than normal due to the long climb. I gotta cut out those chocolate pies, he thought.
Bones and Gears followed him as he stepped onto the deck. The air was warm and smelled slightly oily, reminiscent of Asia’s machine shop where she taught Nick to build blasters using scrap metal.
Nick had removed his gloves to get a better grip on the staircase railings, so when he approached the nearest pod and placed his bare right hand on the smoked glass, he c
