You touch the girl. She stirs, then sits up, rubbing her eyes. She looks at you curiously for a moment, then says, "I'm glad you're here. I'm Kim Lee."
"You know my language?" Kim Lee stands up, stretches, and looks intently into your eyes. "Language is no problem here. We have hundreds of years to learn."
"You're hundreds of years old?"
"I was collected 475 years ago, during the reign of the Emperor Cheng - te. I was a princess, but here that means nothing."
"But you look only a few years older than I do!" Kim Lee smiles. "The U-TY masters stopped our aging process, so I have not grown up. But I have learned more than I would in a dozen life - times on Earth."
"How long have you been sleeping?" "It was just a short nap — about twenty - five Earth days."
"Twenty - five Earth days?"