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Six months ago, a forest planet was the only world Coloth of the Ulk-Ra had ever known. He had never heard of books, or humans, or Christmas. Then he was killed. Then he was brought back. And then he ...

When the snowfall began to thin, Aletheia-548 knew that she was drawing close. She took the map from her pocket again, tracing her path back along the ridge, then looked ahead. Squinting against th…

As a member of the mortally-ambiguous, the Man in Grey never thought much of sleep. He still slept, mainly to pass the time between work hours (if there were hours between work), but he never felt …

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

PREVIOUS CHAPTER 4. Much to the satisfaction of her curious streak as well as to the benefit of the present narrative, introductions had been made by the time the expected supervisor made herself k…

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

PREVIOUS CHAPTER 3. It had not surprised Laura Drake to realise, as Doctor Creighton directed her to a lift, that most of Site 15 was not contained within the ungainly grey brick, but underground, …

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

PREVIOUS CHAPTER 2. Having made herself known to the staff of Site 15 and been introduced into the building proper, it was not long before Laura Drake faced a wicked trick of fate entirely unlike t…

1 – Transformed Room with the throne, tall and white with polished spines splayed in an arc. The torches don’t do a thing for the cold in these chambers. They are dark, these chambers, dark a…

Prologue The ancient thing was hungry. It was so, so hungry. It had been hungry for as long as it could remember, so hungry that it could think of nothing save the hunger and the dark. Nothing save…