Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018
Shi Xin and Bain wait for Hunter. Although this moon barely registers the passage of light into night, eventually Bain and Shi Xin have drifted into an uncomfortable sleep at the mouth of the cavern, resting perfunctorily against each other. Shi Xin is the more alert but they’ve not been disturbed since their wait began, and the presence of the …
Shi Xin and Bain continue to wait for Hunter. Bain stares at the service bot and the coffee cart that stands next to it. Bain’s mother would have noticed the devil in her son’s eye, the boredom that would eventually drive him from the ill-kept family home, the curiosity and the rebelliousness that would send him to jail. Staring at …
Shi Xin and Bain wait for Hunter. For Bain the continued absence is a cause for irritation rather than concern. Prone to recklessness Bain is also subject to extreme bouts of self-doubt and has begun to wonder if Hunter will ever return, or whether the prolonged wait is an exercise in power. He knows that’s unlikely but the grievance swells …
As Bain and Shi Xin wait for Hunter their intermittent conversations ripple across the mouth of the cavern where they shelter from the heat of the slow-drowning Barnard’s Star dipped now below the horizon. Artefacts of light stretch across the rocky landscape as Bain stands with his back to the reclining Shi Xin whose closed eyelids flicker with the keenness …