Chapter 72068
Even in the dark, he could still hear the low growl of the ship’s vast imagination engines, the stirring of the dreams of the crew powering the massive vessel as it moved slowly and languidly on through the glittering stars. FF-46 was its official designation, though no one bothered calling it that, such officiousness being reserved solely for staff members of the Firmament Foundation responsible for its construction; out in the depths of the lonely star fields, the crew just called it High-Rise, its shape and stature at least as vast as the old concrete and glass tower blocks that had once populated London, before an almost half-century of pandemics had seen what little population was left disperse into clusters along the former greenbelt.
He reached the sealed door, the t
