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I found Lincoln standing at the control bar of the space barge. She had her back to me and started talking as soon as I entered the control deck.
“Take a seat and strap in, Screw Top, this is going to be rocky.”
She was not joking. The barge jumped and splashed into the dark green water between the islands. It sank rapidly. As we did, so I saw that the islands were connected under the surface by crystal branches that all came from a massive irregular-shaped crystal that trailed below the island. This was Red Halls technology and raised the possibility that the fracturing of the islands and their subsequent travelling were not random or caused by the climate disaster. I knew that the Red Halls had many fingers in many, many pies, and a wide assortment of operational agendas. If we had
