Dear Victoria,

The time is quickly approaching when we will both be out of communication. First there was our enjoyable correspondence as you departed our solar system, then there was my one sided conversation with you as you slumbered on your journey to New London. Now I am nearing the time where my voice will be silent and the universe will hear nothing from us until you reach the end of your long journey. I hope once you arrive you will begin your own one sided conversation with me as I have done with you. It has given me comfort to know you will one day read my thoughts to you and find solace there. I look forward to reading what has occurred during my stasis and hope you will follow suit. For now reality will cease to exist for each of us as I step into the next phase of my journey. Tomorrow I will transfer to the medical bay to start the stasis process. Due to the reconstruction of my arm so near to our departure date, I will be one of the first travelers to enter the facility. They will need to monitor the entire process and not just the final twenty hours as the remaining passengers are required to do. I am sure there are others in my predicament, but since my voluntary isolation I have not sought any of them out to find assurance in our mutual conditions. I am now preparing myself for three of the idlest and boring days of my existence, but it cannot be avoided. I only hope they supply some type of distraction tactics as they did with you.

I have checked on my precious cargo one last time to ensure the creatures are secure and ready to transfer once we reach the location near the Phycodurus where we will move from the Infinity to the space station shuttle. The stasis technique for my secret companions is surprisingly similar to my own. The technician, who is preparing my own sleep, is also responsible for my charges. The stasis technician for my covert companions is the same man that will be assisting with my process. Since we will both be exiting the ship at the Phycodurus, we have been assigned the same stasis wing, so that is logical. He has been very knowledgeable about the medical process and what I can expect at the end of the jump. I will report directly to him in the early morning hours tomorrow so I may not be able to compose another message to you before the process starts. I realize this is not as emotional a message as the one you composed before we lost contact, but somehow I do not feel the loss as strongly as you did. I guess because I know when I awake you will be on New London waiting for me to make contact. I can immediately reach out to you and make know a response is imminent. For you it will be another year before I arrive when you regain consciousness. I expect great thing from you during that lonely year and I cannot wait to hear what you have been up to. There is also the vast amount of data available when I arrive that you will so kindly have gathered for me. These things are all I can think of during these last days awake aboard the ship. Even the dire warnings of the medical team cannot dampen my spirit at this point. The Anomaly is calling to me and there is only one more sleep before I make its acquaintance. That is hard to believe. Although I have tried for the last week to study some of my observation on the dark Anomaly, I find myself returning to our main research subject in anticipation of this meeting. Being in the presence of the creature is all I have dreamed about for the last fifteen years. Ever since that dark night under the gaze of the seven sisters when we took our oath; An oath to better the world through our joint knowledge of Science and human nature. Even then I knew the Anomaly was the path to fulfilling that dream. Now that dream is close to being realized and no amount of strange data from another sector of space is going to deviate me from my original plan. I just need to get past this last uncontrollable hurdle. The stasis process!! The rest is under my control.

Let us hope I have the strength and the fate of the universe enough to survive.

See you on the other side.

Love your sister forever

Annalis