Chapter Nineteen
Harbor Building, 12 March 1871
After Louisa left, Patrick turned to the aether. He hadn’t experimented any more with it, reluctant to give Cobb more power over him and it. But he also recalled Claire’s experience, how she had managed to communicate with it.
And then the creature that had been released when the laboratory had been bombed… What was it? Before they’d stabilized it, the aether would disappear back to its usual state of being the substance light passed through. Did giving it form allow it to have will? Was the aether biscuit examining him as it slowly undulated in its glass globe just as he studied it?
Patrick shook his head and massaged his temples. Yes, they had seen some strange things at Fort Daniels, but perhaps there were other explanations.
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