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Wreathing its shoulders and stretching toward the heavens is a swirlingBeneath that, littlesand Many of the aniravity engines

It breaks so inside me to see an instrument of creation perverted into a weapon Whatever doubt I held vanishes Darrow is no longer a good man Even Atalantia declined to use her atomics on actual cities But to kill us, Darroill drown the northern coast of Helios Tyche, Kaikos, Priapos, Arabos, will all be in the path of tidal waves

Millions will die

I do not know if it can be stopped, but he must be

“This feels like a drea to be all she ever wanted Cicero eyes the wo to her

I can barely hear his I fear ill not be able to reach Ajax even in theWhich is why he is scheduled to coine

I find Kalindora at my side Unlike Seraphina, she is not in thrall to the Storm God Sorrow fills her eyes as she looks up and up She has seen horror many times before This is merely its bleakest evolution “Your thermal runway,” I say

She turns with a grim expression and pulls Rhone to her

“Prepare to engage in six colue!” She summons Cicero Robbed of our orbital support, ill have to do this the old-fashioned way

I check my ammunition just as there’s a flash froreat distance, I cannot distinguish what it is Before I can pull up my optics, Seraphina tilts her head back at me

“Gahja, don’t be such a—”

And then the entire top half of her starShell disappears as a rail slug the size of a hter clean in half My cos of theher intestines out the top

“Inco!” Kalindora bellows

THERE IS NO PLACE in all worlds like Tyche

Set on an incline between theit to the Talarian Peninsula, it is the ancestral hoh the city is famed for its white sands and coral reefs, there is a reason the Votum family crest is a hareed, but for beauty and symlass Libraries the size of starships but shaped like bizarre hu bridges link corate into the northern sea in the late su plants creep down the narrow, cobbled streets, which then wind in spirals up her twelve great hills