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she’d been feeling what I did… That must be what she and Horus were talking about…
    After a few more minutes I was finally starting to feel normal. I looked around and saw that Horus was helping the techs release other members of the team from their capsules and getting them on their feet.
    All of a sudden I heard a man hysterically yelling andcarrying on. The vastness of the room made it so loud, I almost had to cover my ears.
    I heard Horus say “He’s having a bad reaction! Hurry and sedate him before he goes into cardiac arrest!”
    Horus pinned him down and the technician injected the man with something; he struggled for a few moments and then he passed out.
    He turned to the technician and said “Call someone to come and bring him to the medical bay. And tell them to keep sedatives ready in case he continues to panic when he wakes up again…”
    Horus frowned and became concerned, leaned in close to the stasis capsule and said “His mouth is bleeding… He must have bit his tongue…”
    The tech was obviously horrified, he had backed up and was stuttering as he tried to answer Horus.
    “I.. I’ve never seen anything like that…”
    “It doesn’t happen often… I haven’t seen anyone react this badly in a long time… Hopefully he won’t end up having to be restrained and confined the rest of his life like the last one… He’s a good man, very bright. It would be a shame.”
    … So much for that being extremely rare…
    Sara came over and sat next to me, I could tell she was waiting for me to be able to talk again.
    I coughed a few times and said “That was definitely the strangest I’ve ever felt in my whole life… I feel fine now though.”
    “Yeah, me too…”
    I stood up and walked around a little. If anything I was starting to feel better than I have in a long time… I suppose it was a side effect of a five year rest. I’m just glad I didn’t wake up in a terrified frenzy like that man…
    “I hope that guys ok… I thought Horus said that kind of thing was really rare?”
    She sighed. “He must have been really afraid when he went in… I’m sure he’ll be fine. It should only be temporary.”
    “I don’t know, Horus said he was the worst he’d seen in a long time…”
    Sara didn’t respond right away, she just looked into my eyes…
    “So do you feel anything… odd?.. Like feelings that don’t belong?”
    I must be right… She was being overcome by the same inexplicable emotions I was… But I wasn’t sure and this could easily end in my embarrassment, so I wanted to tread carefully.
    “I think so… but it’s so strange, I don’t really know what to say.”
    She looked down and then back at me... I could tell she was embarrassed and confused, just like I was…
    “Are they about me?”
    I hesitated for quite some time… “Yes.”
    “Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’ll be rightback.”
    I didn’t know how to take anything right now…
    She walked over to Horus and I heard her say “You were right, he feels it too.”
    Horus glanced in my direction and then walked over to me. “You two are going to have be part of an official case study when we return. This is extremely interesting… To say the very least.”
    I asked “What do you mean?”
    He went on to explain that Sara and I had obviously made a connection shortly before we were put in stasis. It caused us to be thinking about each other as the process was initiated. He said this why I felt like I missed her and was so relieved to see her face.
    In my subconscious I had been waiting to see her for five years… Apparently she felt the same way…What did this mean? We barely knew each other and now I felt like I’d known her for years, even though I knew absolutely nothing about her.
    Sara and I sat there awkwardly looking at each other for what seemed like minutes before I said “So this isn’t real? It’s just a side effect due to our recent connection? What do we do?.. Will my conscious mind