You open your eyelashes.

There is an icy darkness all around, making you want to pull your legs to your chest and curl into a ball to retain as much heat as possible and prevent your body from cooling further, but you have no way to move — your limbs, hips and chest are pressed against a steel structure and tied with belts from strong buffalo leather to a gel mattress. You feel almost completely naked, only your chest and thighs are bandaged with compression knitted fabric, so that blood circulation does not stop from being in an immobilized position for a long time, and the only thing covering your body now is a rough, medical-like white cotton shirt with wide sleeves.

A few centimeters from your face is a metal surface, somehow reminiscent of a coffin lid — the inner wall of your cryptosleep capsule, which has served as your bed for the last... how many years have you been sleeping?

The capsule is filled with warm air, slightly heavier than a real atmosphere, and its composition, density and pressure are monitored constantly. The metal walls do not transmit sound, light and electricity, so it looks dark all over the inside of the container.

Suddenly, some buttons and indicators near the upper part of the capsule light up and a quiet crackling is heard, the body is slowly heated and the cryo-circulation system comes to life, slowly releasing the straps that restrain you rhands, and the top and side walls of the casket rise.