Thorns of Immortality
by Patryk Rebisz

Part II (short excerpts) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1. Accidental Midway
"A baby born on the day of their departure was already dead. If they were to go back - to spend another 90 years in sleep, they would be flying back to a place that's two generations detached from their lives."

"The journey was their ticket into eternity - the immortality they will never reach. Their existence wiped from any possible glory, they were nobodies destined for the fringes of history."

"A self-materialising probe that out-ran them on the way to the distant Planet didn't need sensors to experience or chips to process the stimuli. It was as a pure thought - a being that didn't need to exist to be."