Chapter 33Starlight glistened in the darkening sky, the soft fall of snow a veil of atmosphere above the fields, and lakes, and lonely cities, and the cold silence beyond, the empty void.
Almost empty, the girl thought, and though she could not see it, she knew that it was there, its surface illuminated by the radiant rocks that gathered in a sea before it as the vast shape of it crawled out from behind the shadow of Pluto. An ugly world, she thought, feeling the chill of the glass, feeling the attention of Meiko upon her, the question she had asked bound to come again; the question that Muninn, youthful in appearance, older than time, was reluctant to give a reply to.
Perhaps it was time, she thought; perhaps on this occasion, it would be right to talk about what had passed, where they
