Chapter 15 · free to read
A cavern with a sky of its own, and light coming from something other than the sun.
Three camps built one above the other, each on the ruins of the one below it.
Three parties stayed. Not one of them had died. That was the answer, and it was worse than the question.
The door opens once more, they told her, and only ever for whoever it wants. Four hundred kilometres above her, in a flooded rock chamber, a mechanic with a frozen sleeve was already fuelling the tractor.
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