Her pop-pop used to say there was a beginning, once, but weâre all born into someone elseâs story, and most of us die long before ours can truly be said to have endedâŚ
Gianna Bianti has died three times (because stasio very much is death, just without the commitmentâthereâs no soul that departs for greener pastures; revival is just a matter of developing the technology to do so) the fourth time she is born, she knows something has gone wrong.
Because coming up from stasio is a much longer, much more painful process than going under. Freezing someone is easy, and once humanity mastered gene splicing, preventing tissue damage was as simple as tweaking woodfrog DNA to be compatible with that of a mammal and grafting it to the to shiver reflex. Frequent flyers will occasionally lose the odd extremity, a finger or toeârarely an eye, but it does happenâbut a run of starfish will fix you right upâ
But thawingâ
They canât restart your heart until your circulatory system wonât be pumping slush, but even after, itâs agonizing; the first ten days they have to keep you pumped so full of fentaphine you have to do a mandatory stint in rehab before you can sign up for your next haul.
She should not be in this much pain.
