Halo: Primordium by Bear Greg

Author:Bear, Greg [Bear, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780230763067
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Australia
Published: 2011-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

I angrily gathered up a few scraps of clothing from the old huts. Some at least of the food had been real—a final feast produced within the pavilion of cylinders—and I packed up what I could.

None of the monitors moved. Their eyes stayed dark.

I walked into the jungle a few hundred meters and joined Vinnevra and the ape at the start of a nearly overgrown trail, little more than a winding gap between the towering trees. I could not meet her look, and when she asked me if he had died well, in tune with daowa-maadthu, I simply nodded.

I felt barren inside. No Riser, no old man, and even the voice within was quiet. I had no notion where we might go from here, and neither did Vinnevra. But we started down the trail, anyway, to the far side of the plateau. After her question about Gamelpar’s passing, she did not speak for hours. It was her way of mourning.

The station where Gamelpar had died was several kilometers behind us and the jungle was thinning when she asked me to tell her the old stories, just as I had told them to her grandfather.

And she in turn would speak the stories Gamelpar had told her, including the story about the First Human’s soul-finger.

It was then that Riser chose to rejoin us.

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