Chapter 80
Could he be right? Rot, rot, rot. I need time to think. “You don’t have to believe me,” he says. “I didn’t expect you to, to be honest. It took me years to work it out.” He paces a few steps, tap-tapping, then turns. “But you must admit that you and I share a power that no one else on the ship has. That we can see this … energy. And if we can see it, perhaps we can manipulate it.” I remember how Grog had thrown lines of the strange gray energy at the angel to halt it in its tracks, and used it to show me the way home. Whatever it is, the Scholar is right that it flows throughout Soliton. Is that the Captain’s secret? If this power can control an angel, can it control the ship itself? The Scholar misinterprets the look on my face. “You see the possibilities, don’t you?” I shrug. “So why
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