Shards of Earth: Volume 1 (The Final Architecture) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Author:Adrian Tchaikovsky [Tchaikovsky, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2021-08-03T07:00:00+00:00

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As Idris didn’t sleep, he found himself on his own once the camp had settled in for the night. Without the others distracting him, he couldn’t blot out the sensation anymore. He’d felt it the moment they came in sight of the ruins—perhaps even since he set foot on-world. There was a presence to the Originator site. It wasn’t dead, though surely it had once been something far grander and was now just a worn-down stub. Whatever had made this place what it was, whatever struck fear into the Architects, it was still here. The silence he felt was the silence of something standing close, making no sound—not simply an absence of sound. And nobody knows this, except me.

Perhaps there was a whole covert research program on the subject, run out of Mordant House. But he thought not. There weren’t enough Ints, not enough Originator sites. Nobody to join the dots… except him. He felt as though he was on the edge of a colossal revelation—wondrous or terrible, he couldn’t say. And because no more understanding came, he just stayed on that edge. An exhaustion of suspense kept him strung out for hours, while dark turned back into dawn and then headed towards dark again. The camp, he discovered, worked for one day-night cycle and then rested for the next one. It wasn’t something that fitted well with human diurnal rhythms but, since Idris had shed those, maybe he was better suited to Jericho than anyone else.

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