From time to time I hear the sound of engines. Big ones. It seems as if they shake the room, shake the air. It sounds almost like a huge machine idling nearly. I hear it sometimes when I’m going to sleep, and when i shake my head to listen closer, it vanishes.
One night it had me wondering as I drifted off to sleep, if this wasn’t all an illusion. If the noise was perhaps the only real part of this experience, as I lay dreaming in my stasis pod, drifting among the stars. Rocked to sleep by the sound of mighty engines.