Aubade: Chapter 9
Bound by Blood: Uniting the Crew
Hello You — who clicked on this link and isn’t quite sure if you want to keep reading. Read a little bit more! Here’s something fun to read this summer, hop onboard Aubade — my sci-fi serial. It has a bit of everything, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. And yes, there’s a mystery and futuristic tech and yes, there’s romance too! All you need, right? Here you can read more about how it all began and the why.
What’s it all about?
You’re a woman who’s woken up out of stasis and you find yourself onboard the spaceship Aubade escaping Earth. Forever. Last thing you remember is going to bed. On Earth.
Bound by Blood: Uniting the Crew
She spent two hours in the middle of the night going through his notebook. She found nothing new about herself or anything that suggested why she was on this mission. She did of course flinch when she saw “vaginal birth” listed as prior health events.
And as if a dam had burst and unclogged layers of silt and dust, her brain at once gained a clarity she hadn’t experienced since she woke up on Aubade. Women! Where were all the women? The ratio of male to female wasn’t too lopsided on the main colony but she had not seen any women of the Old, she was absolutely sure of it. She darted up wide awake and began searching Vince’s notebook for a clue. And she found it.
Aubade had not woken up all of its sleeping members. Onboard were still 50 women in deep sleep! And based on a quick scan of their bios Sara figured out that most of them were from the Coast! She was excited and stunned. Why keep them asleep?
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