CHAPTER 1
“Is it true what they say about Harmonizers?” Pala Eydis asked.
Tarkos did not open his eyes. He lay beside Eydis in his own narrow bed. They had just made love fervently, both of them excited that he had escaped the Labyrinth and returned to the ship alive. He had nearly fallen asleep after, exhausted and relaxed. “What?” he whispered. He reached over and ran his fingers through her thick hair, feeling the weight of it.
“That you can smell DNA. You have a quantum computer with DNA sequencers in your head or something.”
He smiled at the sound of her voice. He found her Icelandic accent endlessly charming. “It’s not smelling,” he said. “More like tasting. But, really, it’s a different and new kind of sense. Unique. As different from smell as sight is.”
“And they b
