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The ship was
waiting when she reached the launch site, shining pale in the light of
the full moon. She took her place at the end of the queue of
prospective passengers, which seemed to snake for miles towards the
distant hatch. As she stood in the chill night air, she observed her
fellow travelers. Most seemed to be solitary, but there were a few
knots of friends or ad hoc families. All, like her, were free of
baggage or other encumbrance. Once aboard the ship, they would nestle
inside stasis chambers and sleep dreamlessly while the ship moved
silently through empty space. The voyage would take centuries, if not
millennia, the planners had said, but time meant nothing to those
waiting to board. Only the destination mattered: that distant,
unimagined planet where the vampires could dwell without fear, free
from the dreadful light of Earth's burning sun. |
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