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Or, at least, for the password to the door below us Tarver’s shoulders are hunched, his eyes fixed on the singed page in his hand Detero to his side, run h his hair, kiss his temple, distract him until that tension disappears

But instead I just sit here, un No matter how hotly that part of me burns, the rest of me is frozen, unable to so much as reach for him This half-life is torture--I’m little more than a prisoner in this nuet Tarver home I force my attention back to the records scattered all around us

My father’s lae I can’t help but stare at it, thoughts dwelling on the ht I’d known so well I want to believe he doesn’t know about this place, that the mysteries and horrors of this planet are buried somewhere deep inside LaRoux Industries But I knowpulse of the company he built He’s the one who hid this place He has to be

"They keep referring to a ‘dihts

"Die into focus Buthelpful

"Maybe" Tarver’s brown eyes scan the docuet yanked out of hyperspace by sohts shine through the page he’s holding up, silhouetting nia stamped at the top "Then it’s not coincidence that we just happened to crash on a terraformed planet, my father’s planet"

"Doesn’t look like it, does it?" He falls silent, then leans forward, suddenly alert "It says here, ‘Further atte the super-orbital reflectors have failed, both here and on Avon’ What the hell does any of that mean? I know Avon, I was posted there for a few es and cross to Tarver’s side of the rooh so about the mirror-moon? That must be what they mean by ‘super-orbital reflectors’ Mirrors in the sky, to speed up terrafore the terrafor timelines by decades"

"Okay, but then how does the mirror-moon cause a rift? Does it say anywhere what the rift is?"

He fishes out another page, blowing away a layer of ash and inspecting the text "Dimensional rift collapse will release unpredictable quantities of energy, potentially fatal in nature Do not attempt direct physical contact with any objects or persons"

"Then it is like hyperspace" I can feel the connections clicking together, and I trip over e when the Icarus was ripped out of hyperspace--ree when a ship enters or exits hyperspace? There’s usually preparation, better protection The rift they’re talking aboutanother dimension, but without the need for a ship"