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Chapters (68)
  1. Title page
  2. Dedication
  3. Part I
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. Fourteen
  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
  21. Eighteen
  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty-one
  25. Twenty-two
  26. Twenty-three
  27. Twenty-four
  28. Twenty-five
  29. GAIA YOUNG. SUBJECTIVE IMPRESSIONS.MISSION DAY 20. 20:25 MT.
  30. Part II
  31. Twenty-six
  32. Twenty-seven
  33. Twenty-eight
  34. Twenty-nine
  35. Thirty
  36. Thirty-one
  37. Thirty-two
  38. Thirty-three
  39. Thirty-four
  40. Thirty-five
  41. Thirty-six
  42. Thirty-seven
  43. GAIA YOUNG. SUBJECTIVE IMPRESSIONS.MISSION DAY 22. 20:05 MT.
  44. Thirty-eight
  45. Thirty-nine
  46. Forty
  47. Forty-one
  48. GAIA YOUNG. SUBJECTIVE IMPRESSIONS.MISSION DAY 25. 15:30 MT.
  49. Forty-two
  50. Forty-three
  51. Forty-four
  52. Forty-five
  53. Forty-six
  54. Forty-seven
  55. Forty-eight
  56. Forty-nine
  57. Fifty
  58. Fifty-one
  59. Fifty-two
  60. Fifty-three
  61. Fifty-four
  62. Part III
  63. Fifty-five
  64. Fifty-six
  65. Fifty-seven
  66. Fifty-eight
  67. Also by Chris Beckett
  68. Copyright page

‘It’s Davey!’ someone shouted. ‘It’s Davey and Tom and Trueson!’

Now this was fun! We all cheered up at once, and soon everyone was laughing out loud.

Another picture appeared. ‘Look! It’s you, Lucy!’ someone yelled out delightedly. ‘No way!’ a woman answered. ‘No way is that me!’ Her friends laughed at her. ‘It is, you know! That’s exactly what you’re like!’

Another picture came, this time a moving one. ‘Tom’s dick! Look!’ a man shouted. ‘It’s old Roger. I’d know that weird walk anywhere!’

Then came a picture that talked. ‘You want me to speak? I . . . um . . . I don’t know what to say,’ said an old guy in a fancy wrap, looking shyly out of the screen. And everyone cheered because it was David Strongheart himself, but he didn’t seem that scary or high when you saw him like that, not like the fierce leader who’d sent hundreds to their deaths, but more like a kind old granddad to us all.

There were more pictures of low people after that, each one greeted with delight by their friends and family. It went on for some time. Everyone was way way happier being shown what they already knew than they had been looking at those strange pale pictures from Earth. Even pictures of places delighted people.

‘Hey, look! It’s that bent tree over by Lava Blob!’

‘Ha! I know that place! It’s just this side of Cold Path Neck!’

‘That’s Longpool, isn’t it? No, wait a minute, it’s Greatpool, look! There’s that bit of rock that sticks up on blueside.’

But at last the screens went black again.

‘We’ve got an interesting thing to show you,’ said Deep, his voice booming out from the veekle, ‘a really special thing that we know you’ll all want to see and hear, but first Gaia’s got something to speak to you about.’