by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead to the next chapter.
Every night on the space freighter, it was a struggle to get the kits to go to bed. Well, no, it was a struggle to get them to quiet down and go to sleep. Not only did the idea of dividing the day up into separate portions of ‘day’ and ‘night’ feel very artificial to the suddenly savvy little children, but the thin walls meant they could hear other passengers moving through the hallways and talking in neighboring rooms, all very much awake.
Mei argued that without a sun anywhere near the ship, clearly she didn’t need sleep anymore. Obviously, the sun setting was the cause of the Heffen need to sleep, and without a sun to set, she would never need to sleep again. Loi and Darso weren’t sure that sounded right, but they liked the idea of never sleeping again.
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