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“I miss it,” says Tom, after a while. He’d been out there, in his childhood, before Jeremiah Clean had had it from him. He’d flown through space; he’d wandered time; he’d been perfect and amazing, except for that little thing about being the death of humanity —

“I miss it so very much.”

And over the days and nights of autumn, their amazing space station — the construct and sky armory that they will name Vidar’s Boot — rises up to claim the stars.

 

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