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.I don’t think anyone besides Jav and I know about the girl or what she meant to him.” Raus paused.His brow furrowed and he seemed to reconsider his statement.He pursed his lips, continued.“Her name was Anis Lausden and in her Jav saw the ghost of Mai Pardine.With recently awakened memories, he confided in me that in Mai Pardine he saw the ghost of Jeny-Fur.I think that was her name.Ghost isn’t exactly right, either.Each was more like an echo of the last.”“You’re talking about soul echoes,” she said flatly.From her tone, Raus didn’t think that she believed in them.“I watched Anis Lausden die in his arms.He told me that he was helpless to stop Mai Pardine from being killed and that he watched her die.I can’t know for sure, but I’m fairly certain that something similar occurred with Jeny-Fur.I don’t know if the cycle continues back further into the past, but I do think it continued forward.”“Forward?”Raus nodded.Hilene turned around to face him, adjusting her folded arms in an attempt to reign in her bubbling anger.“You think that he’s been finding echoes of a girl he’s been—what?—destined to love—that’s not me—and watching them die, helpless to stop the cycle, turned into some poor victim of fate?”Raus narrowed his eyes.His breast heaved as he considered his response.“I don’t not believe in fate.”She shook her head.“I can’t believe that.Not Jav.”“I don’t have all the answers, Hilene.But I do know that even as Anis Lausden was wasting away, soon to die, with Jav half the circumference of Sarsa away, he complained of having lost something he couldn’t identify.I was there.Her death and his loss were too much of a coincidence to have been unrelated.Mao helped fill the emptiness, probably because physically she was so much like her sister.You know what he was like after Mao died.”Her pout had reasserted itself, but was now melting away.“Do you think he watched one die on that ship?”Their eyes locked and they shared a moment of infinite sadness; Raus for his friend, Hilene, not so much for the lover she could never have, but for the man who, if Raus was right, had happiness endlessly plucked from his breast.“I’ve had my own personal experience with soul echoes,” Raus said.“You believe in a god who returned from the dead to kill his murderers.We’re at this very moment traveling through space in the fibers of a planet-eating plant god.Is what I’ve proposed so unbelievable?”She started to shake her head.Tears welled in her eyes to overflowing but didn’t spill.“You don’t believe it?” he said.She took a deep breath.“ I do,” she said with a gasp.“It’s just so sad.” Her tears fell then, released with all the built-up tension she’d been collecting for years.He reached out and placed a great, blocky hand upon her comparatively delicate shoulder.THE BEGINNING & THE END3.1 PERPETUAL MOTION(10,870 - 10,899)In a single stroke, Aris Kossig simultaneously gave birth to his planet’s doom and its salvation.Ultimately, the latter would win out, but not before an ample helping of the former tested the limits of Planet Stolom’s resilience.From an early age, Kossig was obsessed with the secret of perpetual motion.Though the laws of physics declared the concept impossible, Kossig knew on some instinctive level that those laws were wrong, or that they would be for him.His genius laid the groundwork for his success, but it was an accident which set the actual machine in motion.The machine itself was simple: a hollow, four-meter, framework cube, composed of thirty-centimeter-in-diameter tubing.The tubing was of a special alloy, mixed precisely to produce a natural magnetic field in the center of the cube.A suspension arm housing a particle exciter angled from each corner, focusing on the cube’s center.Kossig had experimented with various fuels, garnering various results.The goal was always to create a perfect system: the exciters would stir the material housed within the magnetic field, providing free energy to be collected and reused by the exciters without any appreciable loss.The best fuel, it seemed, was also the most limited.The element, getnium, was the rarest to be found on Stolom and Kossig had most of the available quantity locked within his machine.The getnium results had come so close to perfection that they managed to pique Kossig’s frustration.While reading the results of the negligible loss in energy, he struck the work table before the machine, not mindful of the sharp crimping tool beneath a sheaf of papers.The papers offered no protection and the crimpers left a deep gash in the bottom of his fist.Shocked by the sudden and unexpected pain, he jerked his hand back, sending a streamer of blood out across his lab [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.I don’t think anyone besides Jav and I know about the girl or what she meant to him.” Raus paused.His brow furrowed and he seemed to reconsider his statement.He pursed his lips, continued.“Her name was Anis Lausden and in her Jav saw the ghost of Mai Pardine.With recently awakened memories, he confided in me that in Mai Pardine he saw the ghost of Jeny-Fur.I think that was her name.Ghost isn’t exactly right, either.Each was more like an echo of the last.”“You’re talking about soul echoes,” she said flatly.From her tone, Raus didn’t think that she believed in them.“I watched Anis Lausden die in his arms.He told me that he was helpless to stop Mai Pardine from being killed and that he watched her die.I can’t know for sure, but I’m fairly certain that something similar occurred with Jeny-Fur.I don’t know if the cycle continues back further into the past, but I do think it continued forward.”“Forward?”Raus nodded.Hilene turned around to face him, adjusting her folded arms in an attempt to reign in her bubbling anger.“You think that he’s been finding echoes of a girl he’s been—what?—destined to love—that’s not me—and watching them die, helpless to stop the cycle, turned into some poor victim of fate?”Raus narrowed his eyes.His breast heaved as he considered his response.“I don’t not believe in fate.”She shook her head.“I can’t believe that.Not Jav.”“I don’t have all the answers, Hilene.But I do know that even as Anis Lausden was wasting away, soon to die, with Jav half the circumference of Sarsa away, he complained of having lost something he couldn’t identify.I was there.Her death and his loss were too much of a coincidence to have been unrelated.Mao helped fill the emptiness, probably because physically she was so much like her sister.You know what he was like after Mao died.”Her pout had reasserted itself, but was now melting away.“Do you think he watched one die on that ship?”Their eyes locked and they shared a moment of infinite sadness; Raus for his friend, Hilene, not so much for the lover she could never have, but for the man who, if Raus was right, had happiness endlessly plucked from his breast.“I’ve had my own personal experience with soul echoes,” Raus said.“You believe in a god who returned from the dead to kill his murderers.We’re at this very moment traveling through space in the fibers of a planet-eating plant god.Is what I’ve proposed so unbelievable?”She started to shake her head.Tears welled in her eyes to overflowing but didn’t spill.“You don’t believe it?” he said.She took a deep breath.“ I do,” she said with a gasp.“It’s just so sad.” Her tears fell then, released with all the built-up tension she’d been collecting for years.He reached out and placed a great, blocky hand upon her comparatively delicate shoulder.THE BEGINNING & THE END3.1 PERPETUAL MOTION(10,870 - 10,899)In a single stroke, Aris Kossig simultaneously gave birth to his planet’s doom and its salvation.Ultimately, the latter would win out, but not before an ample helping of the former tested the limits of Planet Stolom’s resilience.From an early age, Kossig was obsessed with the secret of perpetual motion.Though the laws of physics declared the concept impossible, Kossig knew on some instinctive level that those laws were wrong, or that they would be for him.His genius laid the groundwork for his success, but it was an accident which set the actual machine in motion.The machine itself was simple: a hollow, four-meter, framework cube, composed of thirty-centimeter-in-diameter tubing.The tubing was of a special alloy, mixed precisely to produce a natural magnetic field in the center of the cube.A suspension arm housing a particle exciter angled from each corner, focusing on the cube’s center.Kossig had experimented with various fuels, garnering various results.The goal was always to create a perfect system: the exciters would stir the material housed within the magnetic field, providing free energy to be collected and reused by the exciters without any appreciable loss.The best fuel, it seemed, was also the most limited.The element, getnium, was the rarest to be found on Stolom and Kossig had most of the available quantity locked within his machine.The getnium results had come so close to perfection that they managed to pique Kossig’s frustration.While reading the results of the negligible loss in energy, he struck the work table before the machine, not mindful of the sharp crimping tool beneath a sheaf of papers.The papers offered no protection and the crimpers left a deep gash in the bottom of his fist.Shocked by the sudden and unexpected pain, he jerked his hand back, sending a streamer of blood out across his lab [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]