Chapter 8Knowing that the crew had disappeared, I don’t think any of us got much sleep the first week at least. Tee, especially, still trying to get systems to the point where she could rest without worrying that the air circulation wasn’t going to fail and suffocate us in our sleep. Or the temperature control that might fail to keep the ship above absolute zero. Or prevent airlock failure so we didn’t all explosively decompress. The girls did help by cleaning out all of the dead vegetation in the hydroponics pod. They purged the contaminated substrate. They couldn’t do much after that, not until Tee had the water working.
If that wasn’t enough, we kept hearing noises when we tried to sleep. Ever sleep in an unfamiliar place? You hear things and wonder if it is a bulkhead expanding or con
