I thought of the outer planets where I’d always lived. The disease and the cold, the s******c cops, the taverns with rotten women, minds eaten away with krin-krin.
krin-krin“You picked me wrong,” I yelled wildly. “You don’t get heroes from where I came from. Like Durach said—he’s more my kind. We could be like gods. Immortal—how can I—”
I felt mind-energy, paraphysical power, flow into me from Reeta and Carleth. They told me something, a word—extratemporal—new perception that could let me see things that would happen! Space factors disappeared, for one terrible second. The factor of future time faded—and I could see!
and I could seeI felt it. Hot and horrible and final. A flash of future knowledge. I saw Earth disappear into a great white flame. And where it had been was a white hot nov
