The Web of Titan by Dom Testa

Author:Dom Testa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

The picture on the vidscreen, displayed at high resolution and almost three-dimensional clarity, would never equal the real thing. Triana knew that. But still, as she sat alone in the Conference Room, waiting for Gap, the picture at least had the power to take her back in time and space. Two and a half years and a little more than one billion miles, to be exact. Castlewood Canyon, just outside of Denver, and home to one of her favorite state parks.

The picture was one that her dad had taken during one of their many hikes through the park, showing the view from the top of the canyon wall. It showed the sharp rock formations, the jagged fissures that ran next to the cliff’s edge, a smattering of trees clinging to the rock wall, and the remains of the Castlewood Dam in the distance. Triana’s dad had told her the story of the short-lived dam, built in the late 1800s and then destroyed by a storm less than fifty years later. The torrent of water that poured through the wrecked dam rushed through the canyon and on into Denver miles away, flooding parts of the city and creating a brief panic.

Now the old rock ruins sat quietly, crumbled remains of a vast structure that was originally intended to last for centuries. Triana had often climbed along some of the massive blocks that had been torn from the dam, and wondered about the people who had toiled to build it. They must have been sure that what they were building would stand for ages, a guardian against the onslaught of water that had carved the canyon over thousands of years. Those men and women would surely have been surprised to see the decayed remains of their labor.

For Triana the message was simple enough: nothing lasts forever. No matter how much planning had gone into the design of the dam, it hadn’t lasted fifty years. No matter how much effort the crews had put into its construction, the rocks and mortar from their struggles lay scattered across the canyon floor. Things went wrong.

Things always seemed to go wrong. Her dad had been in fighting shape, in great health, strong and vibrant, full of energy, full of life. A microscopic particle from outer space had taken all of two months to kill him.

Thousands of people had worked diligently to design and build Galahad, and had spent thousands of hours hand selecting the crew from the bravest and brightest around the world. And yet one madman had come within fifty feet of smashing them into oblivion.

Her heart apparently wasn’t immune from damage, either. As hard as she had tried to forget about Bon, to forget their brief spark four months ago, she couldn’t seem to get it off her mind. And Bon was showing no signs of revisiting that moment. Especially now, laid up in Sick House, unintentionally performing the greatest ventriloquist act of all time.

Things went wrong, and no amount of preparation seemed to prevent it.

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