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Sleepers

 
Truth and Lies
The message wall is covered with hundreds of clustered video links, categorized by the search AI with different colors, textures, brightness, size, shapes, and icons, to characterize the words and emotions within. New messages appear on the wall as I watch, and move toward the clusters where they belong.

The memories that we floated on the infonet have spread, along with a program that translates the Kizak language.
Jiku from all over Siksa have responded with anger and disbelief.

Berek doesn’t notice when I enter the room.
He’s too busy moving along the wall, scanning text … Read more

Choices

 
Illusions
“I became the king that Benzu always wanted to be,” says Botzar, as the memories end.

“Why did you leave Makish behind when you became king?” I ask him.

Botzar glares at me.
“The memory is finished, but the story isn’t complete.”

“When I left the silver falls, I didn’t know what to tell my father.”
“If Sindar’s memory and story were true, I had no right to the throne.”

“I decided to tell my father part of the truth.”

Partners of War

 
Chasing Botzar
My mind is still linked with Makish.
Her thoughts are a mess.

Her emotions rise and fall and spin.
She’s nearly in shock.

“I can’t find him, Yagrin,” she sobs.
“The stasis fields are gone, but there’s no trace of Botzar or B’tzel.”
“Maybe they died long ago,” she says quietly, her hope gone.

“No, Makish,” I answer.
“They were alive in the fields, when the ship was still in orbit.”

Have you scanned the ship yet, to find them?” I ask.

“Help me, Yagrin,” she says.
“I can’t touch the web right now.”
“I can’t … Read more

Councils of War

 
Council Hall
The guild council meets in a tall white building, with a flat, radiant black roof, that shines like a dark star in the center of Kirol city.
Once, before the energy war, there were buildings like this in many lands, but this is the last of the council halls.
They were shaped by the Bizra, fifty stories high – six hundred feet long, wide, and tall.
Few of the lands had any use for such an immense building, but no one argues with the Bizra.

The council hall is mostly empty, a quiet monument to ancient times.… Read more