Variks's experiment succeeded, but not how he expected. Ingestion of the Etheric concoction still resulted in Fallen death; it was not, by any means, a life-sustaining substance. It was, however, a life-GIVING substance. Though the dark Ether lingered like a heavy fog, it also seemed ...
Mara calls a caucus of elected representatives in the Sacred Fire, one of the largest hulks in the reef of derelicts. The Fire was built to support habitat construction on 4 Vesta, where Mara hopes to one day anchor the entire flotilla and set down roots—but the hopeful, fearful f...
Mara made one more attempt, and only one, to call her scattered people home. She had hoped the assault would convince them they had a responsibility to the Reef, to come home and repair the damage they had caused. It went poorly, however, for though her tech witches were able to amplify...
It's bad, Sjur Eido says, confirming what Mara already knows, but nonetheless performing the valuable service of mopping away all the blood and tears and allowing Mara to glimpse the actual shape of the wound that divides her people. Not a literal wound (though she is, right now,...
It was Mara alone who established a covenant with that young Ahamkara, which chose the use-name Riven, in honor of its host. It was Mara alone whose singular will and unity of purpose saved the Awoken from that which we now name the Anthem Anatheme. For there was in Mara very little...
Thus the riven Awoken were riven again, into Reefborn and Earthborn. Those who left went to scour the ruins for lost history and give some succor to their Human cousins who still clung to a hostile world. The Awoken came unto these Humans like nephilim, armed with lost weapons, forgotten...
Ten times and once more Mara asked the Oracle Engine to show her the sword that was death and the way it would appear. Ten times and once more the Oracle Engine showed Mara an image of her family. First it showed her Sjur Eido, laughing and bright with strength, who would recede ...
Later. Much later. It is the night before the day of screams. Mara meditates cross-legged in a cradle of null gravity. Variks has told her more than once how the Fallen speak of the Awoken as sterile, unable to regrow their flesh, cursed to bear their scars forever. Also how they...
She closes her eyes. Oryx's throne world smashes through her fleet, the bubble of everted screamspace pulverizing rock, metal, and flesh as mere matter surrenders to the will-made-fact of the Taken King. Somewhere, Uldren roars defiance. This is the moment of absolute sacrifice, the...
Spider's lair. Petra in her element, light-footed, light of thought. She keeps herself open to the place. Heat of packed bodies and machinery, bite of Ether in the air. Money and the promise of money and the things money can make people do. Knives. Pistols. Danger like static charge....
In the bomb-walled passages of the place called Processes and Services, the screams have stopped. I've never heard it quiet before, Lissyl whispers. Are they gone? But she knows, as Portia and Nascia know, as Illyn herself knows, that the Taken have not gone. Not very long ago, P...
...straight into it, weapon aimed, eyes open, trusting her helmet to buffer her sight—and waiting for the first blue flash of Fallen weapons. Prince Uldren Sov saunters in like the belle of the ball, his cocked revolver aimed at the ceiling. At ease, he says, with a little swish of hi...
Petra Venj hangs her head and examines the hilt of her sheathed knife. Transmat particles still swirl in the air around her like tiny flecks of dust as she steps forward back through the H.E.L.M. gate to answer her queen's summons. Mara Sov's voice washes over the chamber's stone ...
...rts to head back for the jumpship, but Glint persists. Then why? he demands, blocking Crow's path. Because I wanted to know I was still me! Crow snarls, his teeth bared in a display of fury. Uldren Sov could defeat a Minotaur without the Light. His hackles lower. I needed—I need to ...
Crow sighed. You ever going to fire that thing? The crack of the sniper round rattled off the tree line. Crow squinted at the small sapling he'd pointed out as a target. Devrim's shot had split it in half. Nice shot! Glint said cheerfully. Devrim gave the ghost a polite nod. Cr...
I have foreseen what must fall so the Empire may rise. Your mastery of war shall make true Cabal of us all. —Emperor Calus
... Thus did the Shadow of Earth slay the betrayer Uldren Sov. Then the Shadow of Earth went to the Emperor and said: My wise and mirthful host, those toward whom you pointed me, I have slain. Now I crave your permission and your blessing to point myself toward one in whose death I ...
He remembers his sister's throne differently: an amalgam of Eliksni flotsam built from the spoils of war, its great weight suspended from the rafters. A throne Uldren set ablaze in the wake of losing her. His first step down a forsaken path. Crow lays a hand on the throne before h...
|| O eggs, O little cells! If nothing else, if you let this memory pass with no other exegesis, learn this: you were loved. || Taranis and Riven scatter their eggs across spacetime, giving them life to look on and grow near. From his grove, a nursery once more, Taranis broods on t...
Queen Mara Sov of the Reef walks the wall tonight, faintly lit by the City's celebrations. This high up, the wind pulls at her cape, beckoning her farther along. The streets below throng with celebrants. The Awoken among them—Earthborn, Reefborn, Lightbearers—all gleam twilight in M...
...ring buried memories to the surface of Crow's mind. Uldren Sov felt unease as he stood with fingertips against the Dark Shard. Everything was wrong, but he ignored it. There was a throbbing sensation at the base of his skull. It burrowed underneath and snaked in between his vertebrae: ...
Not a soul would speak of what remained after that wretched blade found its marks.
Glint. Yeah, buddy? His Ghost's voice is eager. It had been a few hours since Crow last spoke. Is there anything you hate about yourself? Crow turns in the seat of his tree saddle overlooking a sparsely forested valley split by clear Trostland waterways. Whoa. That's intense. Um… well...
One day, you will mold the world to your liking, dear brother, as I always have. —Queen Mara Sov
Mara Sov watched her brother imitate a swooping bird as he entertained a semicircle of children. They flocked to him as if the stories he spun were confections. Uldren lurched to his feet—his shadow casting a heroic pose against a canopy of towering Baryon trees—and thrust a slen...
Petra hoped Spider would not ask too many questions. She should have been used to disappointment by now. When last I saw you, you were the picture of grief over your Queen and your Prince. What changed? Petra took out her knife and started sharpening. Edges of things always soothed he...
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Mara Sov can feel her twin's heartbeat in the chest of the man now known as Crow. She dreams, sometimes, of gathering him in an embrace like she did when they were children. Of one ear pressed to his sternum, listening… I'm sorry, she imagines she would say. For everything. I was wr...
Scribe Eido? Eido looked up from her datapad—from the endless, repetitive reports and documentation that were normally part of a Kell's duty—and was surprised to see Crow standing at her threshold. Velask, he said. Eido jumped to her feet and returned the greeting. Is there someth...
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