First Light

Nine hundred and six sleepers. Nine hundred and six, and the ship had woken exactly one, and when she asked why it gave her an answer that was technically responsive and told her nothing at all.

The viewport unshuttered on her third attempt.

There was a planet under them. There was not supposed to be a planet under them for another century and a half, and when there was, it was supposed to be a different planet, in a different system, and it was not supposed to have lights on the night side.