Ne yapmak istediğine, ne yapması gerektiğine, ne yapmaya mecbur olduğuna dair hiçbir fikri bulunmayan kafası karmakarışık tek bir varlıktım.
-Tüm Sistemler Çöktü, Martha Wells
Danny loved food. He was no great cook, but he didn’t care. It didn’t matter if it came out of a can or a box, or was made by a top-quality chef. As long as it hit the spot, Danny could not care less where it came from.
Food never called him names. It never made him feel like a disgusting human being. It did what it was supposed to do—taste delicious.
It had survived countless years adrift, endured the light of rebirth, only to immediately witness the blackness of death. Like its time in space, it lay motionless. Only now, there would be no waking up.
As far as the beast was concerned, there was no crash. There was no prior life beyond the remnants of an ingrained genetic memory. There was only rebirth.
In stasis, the only dreams one had were replays of the most recent memories before the capsule doors slammed shut. For the beast, those memories were moments of chaos and death.