Waking up was easy enough, if not to say refreshing. Opening his eyes, Somerset felt ready to stretch and in a few minutes, if not leave the dock, then rise. However, it was not so - after several attempts to change position, it became clear that the body was stuck in a feeling of heavy weakness. A miracle did not happen. Damn suspended animation. It was necessary to give credit, the soft twilight light did not hurt the eyes even from the first seconds.
Judging by the data on the terminal console, the engines were still working, but now the acceleration was zero point five tenths of a meter per second squared, which meant that the gravity was only one twentieth of the Earth's. The nearest platform was ten meters below. There should have been a doctor on duty there - a place was provided for him, equipped there, on the platform - a metal chair, a semblance of a folding table and a cabinet, more fitting the definition of a folding suitcase. The terminal signaled that he could start the eating procedure if he wanted. Somerset silently said into the camera that he had no objections. The computer, as usual, could read lips, and immediately notified him that the procedure had begun.
- Refueling, and that's all! - Somerset thought.
He needed to occupy himself somehow, watch something. The terminal did not show movies - for that there was a retractable hanging console that took the necessary position depending on the turn of the head - you could watch with your head on the side. The audio system was represented by headphones inserted in advance - this was done not so much for the purpose of providing leisure, but for the purpose of notifications and listening to individual messages from the terminal.
Choosing a movie turned out to be quite a task. There was a science fiction movie about an alien invasion, but Somerset had already seen this movie more than once.
The choice fell on fantasy. Somerset was not particularly fond of this genre, but sometimes you could watch it. He ordered the movie to start. The film turned out to be rather dull - there were no firearms or flights on some rocket misunderstanding that in reality would have crashed on the first maneuver. True, they did fly here too, but on dragons. It was the most correct, "hard" fantasy. Somerset yawned - this was probably the only thing he did without difficulty. Some princess with a sad face flashed on the screen. All in white and with an invariable crown.
Then Somerset remembered that all those twenty-odd hours of immersion he did not lie in complete unconsciousness - he dreamed something, although now he could not remember what exactly. Nevertheless, he could say with complete confidence that in that unconscious state he went somewhere or talked to someone. With some woman, similar to this sad-looking princess. Under normal circumstances, this did not deserve the slightest effort to remember anything. In a painful fever, for example, in extreme heat, the after-impressions of sleep could be noticeably brighter and then it was really possible to marvel at the intricacies of the human brain and all that. Now, however, the desire to grasp the thread of memories literally grew into some kind of awl in the ass. There seemed to be only one logical way out - to get up and stretch, but this was suspended animation, albeit small, partial. Somerset ordered the computer to turn on something dumber and funnier. Computer, don't look, the machine chose not without knowledge of the matter. The title of the film was "What does at Puop - Is it Repuop" - meaningless gibberish, sounding like something from a toilet theme. According to the plot, a gang of motorcyclists found a road leading to a portal, through which, in turn, they could get into the past, although each time they rode out of the portal naked. Abracadabra was some kind of password, with the help of which the rascals masterfully deceived one ruler of the past after another - they wrote it in secluded places or passed it on to people. Somerset never saw how it all ended - he fell asleep, and he even remembered how it happened - first the sound began to disappear and then appear, then one leg twitched several times, then an arm.