Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018
Bain and Shi Xin continue wait for Hunter, facing out to the slow-sinking evening, light from the twin stars slithering back into the horizon. They sit amongst the rocky formations in the cave entrance, at the head of the slope down to the vast cavern behind. The noisy off-world traders gathered on the slope have lapsed into slumber, exhausted by …
Bain and Shi Xin wait for Hunter to emerge from the dark night. They’ve been at the rendezvous for several hours and begin to wonder if he intends to meet them at all. Bain is standing up, shaking his human arm, trying to loosen the boredom from his veins. Shi Xin remains still, an oasis in the whirl of Bain’s …
Hunter and Bain have just settled back into the cafe. The air of the jungle around them is thick and oppressive. Bain finds breathing difficult, and wonders if the iced tea they’ve ordered will make any difference when finally it arrives. Even the service bots clearing the paths either side of the cafe seem to move more slowly that usual, …
Hunter and Bain are resting in the cool gloom of a café overlooking the slowly dying Barnard’s Star. They had arrived on a nearby, hospitable moon in time to see a rare, languid flare disappear from sight as the nearest planet began its customary eclipse. Vast shadows launch across the moonscape from where occasional forms shift and skitter in an …