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Prologue
They never warn you about what war will do to you. They let you believe you are serving a greater cause, and some more than others are willing to die for that cause. I always thought of myself as one who would die for a greater good.
I never believed that I would actually die, but it made the fight a whole lot easier. The one person I was trying to save was not me but someone else. If I died then the world would go on, if he went…. Well, I didn’t really know what would happen then. But I found out nonetheless.
Back to the warnings I was talking about. If they had warned me that being frozen wouldn’t in fact kill me but keep me preserved for later years, I might have made a different choice back then. Because waking up almost seventy years later is definitely not something I was prepared for. Nor something I had bargained for either.
Waking up isn’t so hard, you just stop sleeping. Feeling exhausted and like you haven’t slept in a million years, hearing radio that’s not quite right. I still don’t understand that after almost seventy(!) years they still managed to get the timing of a radio sequence wrong. With all that technology lying around, couldn’t they just put on a report of us winning the war?
Well, even if they thought that it might not work, it doesn’t really matter since I’m already awake now. I can’t believe that having slept all this time would make me this angry. Or maybe it was just the waking up part that got me so mad.
It’s pretty damn hard to start your life all over again after having slept for so long. The world has changed so much in the meantime. I feel like I’m stuck in this weird dream and can’t get out, like I haven’t woken up at all.