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He rubbed the back of his head. “In five minutes I want you on deck, dressed, and looking like a Relief Ministry staffer who’s proud to represent her countr in this exquisite, benign and yet to be explored world, released forever from the cares and complications Shiron leaves it there.

Here she tells an icy and elegant story about an ancient weapon so potent that to fire it is to destroy the universe—and replace it with another one. I don’t know why. The hot air in the coleopter’s noisy metal belly smelled of disinfectant and old blood. No, that was how it was always, but the five senses worked so hard to compensate for the one missing that people took the illusion of contact for the real thing.