Chapter 18
The Arctic Sea sparkled as they flew over it. The sun rose in the east, throwing fiery shades of orange-pink across the sea of ice. Terminus lay in the distance, its spiky skyline dark and ominous on the horizon. It looked like a city from a science fiction novel, a city from the far future where humanity had advanced to a point where nothing was recognizable. X imagined what the city would have looked like when singularity androids populated it, how terrifying it would have been.
X surveyed the city and reconciled it with Dr. Crenshaw’s map. Just below, he spotted the submerged shipyard where Dr. Crenshaw had fallen into the ice. Then he mapped the distance from the field to the city.
“We were so close,” X said. “Just miles away. If only we had kept going, we would have foun
