LEE LOOKED ALMOST ALIVE in the coffin-like stasis container. The injury that had as good as killed her was a trauma to the back of her skull. Her brain had swollen, and her heart and breathing had stopped, Sparks explained to Jas. The internal pressure from the swelling and the lack of oxygen had severely damaged Lee’s brain. Stasis kept her bodily functions going artificially, albeit at an extremely slow rate, so that what remained of the brain tissue wouldn’t deteriorate further. Her skin retained its plumpness, though it was pale, and if Jas ignored the fact that she wasn’t breathing, Lee looked like she was in a very deep sleep.
It was as though Jas could reach out a hand and wake her up.
The doctor was fitting electrodes to Lee’s skull, pushing aside her cropped blonde hair, and fix
