ANH. Undisclosed Location in Space. VIP cabin. Sunrise

[astrotechmech]

Random is sleeping the sleep of the exhausted and pushed to the limit suddenly brought to safety and put on the most incredibly comfortable bed that he's ever seen. His head is on a fold of the big soft rug thing that Kia has made a cave out of on the foot of the bed, and the sound of her singing to him and talking with Murphy has ceased to really register because of how deeply he's sleeping. There is mud in his dream, because that's the only soft thing he's known till now. But the mud is nice and isn't getting into his joints. It's just warm and comfortable.

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