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Chapters (64)
  1. FRONT COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  63. CHAPTER SIXTY
  64. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our tethers released, with each of the strands melting back into the walls. Simultaneously, however, the places where my body contacted the floor and wall softened, and I was absorbed into the structure of the scull itself. Struggling only made it worse – as if we were in quicksand – and I was soon embedded. Same with Patton. Only my face, top of my legs and arms above the wrist remained above the surface. More dim lights.

“It’s carbonite!” Patton squealed.

“Not a real thing,” I grunted, still hopelessly squirming.

The ceiling appeared to bow at the center and the material gathered into bulge. Then it drew long, stretching toward the floor, forming an eel-like appendage.

“What is that?” squealed Patton.

The head of the eel descended and a bead of blue light shone from its tapered tip, first onto the jar of pickles, also embedded in the floor, then directly onto my crotch.

“Whoa, what are you doing?” Arms hobbled, I flippered my hands at it. “Stop that.”

“Oh, no!” cried Patton. “It’s trying to get your dick, man!”

The eyeless eel looked me in the face, then traced up over my belly and chest, coming to rest just inches from my nose. The blue light began to pulse. Slowly, quickly, slowly, quickly, slowly–

65 International Watch Company – Boring name, exciting watches – You should trademark that.

66 As opposed to the tardigrade limit, which is closer to sixteen-thousand g’s. Those microscopic abominations were built for survival – At what point do brains undergo liquefaction? Asking for a friend.

67 Interestingly, bladder size has little effect on duration of urination. Most animals take twenty-one seconds to relieve themselves. A beagle will take the same amount of time to pee as an elephant, who carries a five-gallon bladder – Now I have to pee even worse! Ahhhhhhh! – Me too! Aaaahhhhh!

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Vortu. The Chime. The Vortu. The Chime. Two independent sources of impending death. One local, one galactic. Even with the very real possibility of her own impending death by the local one, Naecia’s mind was distracted by the Earth man, who according to his now-empty cell was called “Ben”. It was Ben who threatened the lives of everyone she cared about, namely her mother and brother back on Drev, because he didn’t understand the world-ending potential of the object he would soon be tasked to find.