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Although he already had slept for about twelve hours, the rabbit still found it difficult to roll out of his bunk.  He only had three weeks to go before his shift ended, and sleep had long since become the best way to pass the time.

The rabbit rubbed a fist over one eye, then the other, and finally focused his mind on the beeping console, finally awake enough to wrap his mind around what was happening.  The console didn't normally beep.  He slid off his bunk and padded over to his chair, then swore loudly.

One of the storage units had developed a defect.  The coldsleep system in that unit would go offline if the problem persisted, and that put the unit's occupant in danger.

Immediately Ueno went to work, jabbing fingers at touch screens and keyboards alike.  He'd spent the last forty-nine weeks awake for one purpose, and this was it. Watchers handled any problems with the ship.

Resources on the ship, particularly this far between systems, were limited.  Ueno checked lists, reallocated what he could to the diagnostic and repair systems.  That alone would add months to his Watch time; that same energy had been gathering to put him in coldsleep when the next Watcher's shift began.

Ueno moved with the grace and sureness of a conductor.  He'd practiced for this―had run extra scenarios over the last months out of sheer boredom.  He diverted extra power to the robot arms that did most of the maintenance work, and the lights dimmed. Another month added to his Watch.

“Come on, come on...damn it!”  Ueno slammed his fist against the top of his console.  There wasn't enough power to fix the problem.  He didn't want to be the first Watcher to lose someone! He ran the numbers. Even extending his time awake for another year, it still wasn't enough to make the repair in time. His ears fell.

There were procedures for this in the manual.  With a gesture, Ueno swept aside windows of data and opened another one.  He began the shutdown procedure for the storage unit.  Left unattended, the coldsleep system would fail, killing the person inside.  But he could bring the person out of coldsleep.

Minutes later, the procedure had begun.  Ueno grabbed the medical kit as the lights dimmed further, leaving only the emergency lights, power diverted to the failing storage unit.  Outside his small pod, he felt the cold of the deck on his exposed footpads, and remembered that he hadn't bothered with clothing yet that morning.  He hurried back into the pod long enough to pull on coveralls and boots, then hurried along on his task.

By the time Ueno made it to the pod, the systems had begun to open the hatch on the storage unit;  there'd be little time to act if there were any problems.  He checked on the monitor attached to the unit's door.  Looked like the worst hadn't happened; any problems with bringing the body out of coldsleep would cause devastating tissue damage.  That didn't seem to be the case here.

Ueno pulled on the manual opening to the hatch.  The air in the hatch was still near freezing, although the body had certainly been flashed by now.  If he didn't get the occupant out quickly, there still remained the danger of hypothermia.  He looked in the hatch, and found a young wolf there. “Just a pup,” he murmured. Poor thing. He  checked vital signs and found no pulse.“Fuck!”  He dragged the body out of the hatch and laid it on the deck.

The medical kit had a defibrilator.  Ueno set the contacts and pressed the button.  The body twitched.  Ueno checked for a pulse.  Still nothing.  One more push of the button, a silent prayer to whatever could be listening,  so far beyond civilization.  

This time Ueno could feel a pulse.  He let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding.  “Thank goodness,” he said.  The air felt colder; it wasn't just the opened coldsleep unit, but he'd broke out in a sweat, and the fur on his brow had gotten damp.  

Ueno lifted the small body and cradled it in his arms, carried it back towards the pod where he slept.  There would still be the work of getting the wolf pup's body temperature up, but he could manage.  It at least looked as if he wouldn't need to log a cub's death in his report.  All spacers feared losses in the darkness between stars, but none as much as that of a youngster.  Some fears ran deep, no matter how advanced society grew.","pools_count":3,"title":"Audiobook Demo: “Coldsleep” by Hibiscus","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"audio/mpeg","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"2","rating_name":"Adult","ratings":[{"content_tag_id":"4","name":"Sexual Themes","description":"Erotic imagery, sexual activity or arousal","rating_id":"2"}],"submission_type_id":"12","type_name":"Writing - Document","guest_block":"t","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"2","views":"65","sales_description":null,"forsale":"f","digitalsales":"f","printsales":"f","digital_price":""}