CHAPTER 6
“What a world,” Tarkos said. He stood on the edge of a stone cliff, with Eydis and Bria flanking him as he looked out over a black sea that crashed on shards of rock a hundred meters below. The cresting waves glowed pale blue along their tops from the reflected light of the gas giant above, before they fell into the bruised black water. In the distance, the dark front of the approaching storm gathered over the foaming ocean.
“You’re telling me that those clouds out there are a storm of hurricane strength, and it comes every few days?” Tarkos asked.
Eydis nodded.
“What a world,” Tarkos repeated.
“You begin to see it,” Eydis said. “Imagine how the Ulltrians evolved, and how their civilization evolved. The sky here is completely unpredictable. The secondary sun is on a ch
