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<– Chapter 21 / Chapter 1 –>
He races through the city at night, down streets and alleys all but deserted, encountering only rare clusters of celebrants, listless and confused, abandoned by the presence of the mhuruk-a. Always forward, guided by the light tipped spire of the Whelemat complex. He chases its image against [...]
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<– Chapter 20 / Chapter 22 –>
By dawn, he is exhausted, dazed with fatigue, dizzy with knowledge. He is a creature emerging from the dank night of a cave into the blinding light of spring, of day, of awareness. He feels himself unrecognizable, a temporary resident of his own body–a body [...]
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<– Chapter 19 / Chapter 21 –>
Later, afterward, the Whiston comm hub, a space he knows. Maybe not this one as much as spaces like it, comfortable places surrounded by logic and energy and possibility. Racks of comm array synchronization servers, lights green and red, amber status displays blinking, flipping characters. The hum of exhaust [...]
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<– Chapter Eighteen / Chapter Twenty –>
Sunset. Evening. Streaks of orange and molten gold stretching out like fingers, like tentacles over the city of Blackheath Grange from West to East, continent to sea; sun dipping beneath the tree and cliff line, [...]
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<– Chapter 17 / Chapter 19 –>
On Thursday or whatever the locals call it, Ray rises late, having slept for hours. Too many hours, really, paying back the checks against he has written against his body in recent days. He wakes in the early afternoon with the heat of the sun [...]
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<– Chapter 16 / Chapter 18 –>
He sleeps for two hours, maybe less. He doesn’t have a clock in his room. He was aware when he finally stumbled into bed that the gray light of dawn was filtering through the windows, but by that time he was so exhausted he didn’t have the [...]
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<– Chapter 15 / Chapter 17 –>
Night. Stars so bright they seem to hang within arms’ reach. Constellations without name, without history. It is a sky without context, beneath which he drifts, a lurching planet unmoored from any coherent orbit. In the darkness relieved only by the dim cones that mark [...]
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<– Chapter 14 / Chapter 16 –>
Less than two days removed from watching friends and colleagues purged into vacuum by the destruction of Paraclete, and only scant hours from the betrayal of the memories of Kilgore and Rodriguez so he could purchase the cooperation of EED with plausibility, Ray crunches up the white pebble path [...]
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<– Chapter 13 / Chapter 15 –>
His first day on New Holyoke, he sleeps. Exhausted, insensate, dreamless, with Nomar curled up at his feet and blankets soft as silk wadded around him like burial shrouds. He sleeps until the despair is gone, the aches are dulled, the horror dissipates, and when he wakes, he is [...]
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<– Chapter 12 / Chapter 14 –>
The podship scuds against atmosphere, triggering a battery of deceleration thrusters; but this is a fine ship, not a minimum-contract drop can. She rumbles, sending a perceptible shiver through the hull plating, but then it’s just like dropping into a vat of molasses, a sense of pressure and a [...]
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