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==Chapter 22 - I used to Dream==
Kowloon System
Lyran Commonwealth
October 3091
She's unconscious.  It's been three weeks now.  My parents are in the waiting room with me.  The doctors have just about rebuilt her left hand where the glove was compromised.  even when she's been off the anesthetic, she's been...hollow, unresponsive and catatonic.
EEG says there's activity in her brain, she's not brain-dead.  It's more like she's somehow trapped in there.
The same situation with the other survivors.  We don't know what long-term exposure in hyperspace does.  We do know the approximate time and date she activated the jump core.
She's been there since they sent their last message.
Penny reported that the gates can maintain for roughly an hour, and that there's no apparent effect on unmanned packages moving through the connection.  The test run with a shuttle is waiting on me.
I'm supposed to be there...and I'm here.
"Patrick." Mom's cradling a cup of hot tea.
"Yeah?" i responded.
"There are twelve cutters and a destroyer full of our people, along with three JumpShips, they need to come home." she tells me.  "You have a job to do, I can call you if there's any change."''
"Mom-"
"Don't but-mom me, son.  Your sister's been through a severe trauma...a lot of severe traumas.  But she's alive, you can worry about helping her when you've brought our people home."
"Ayeh Mum."
So I left.
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