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Two stops down the line he left the train, leaving Anita and Rachel with the carriage to themselves. “That’s you at eight weeks old,” said her grandmother. ”Michael nodded and went back to filling buckets. But when Carl finally showed up, nobody moved.

“I must be late,” said Lucas. The Kanzeon’s smiling face, the thousand arms spread out around and behind her like the wings of a Persian angel, were clearly visible now even without it. They listened. “Don’t you know anything about the world you’re supposed to be guarding, curator? The air’s thick here, and the gravity’s low, only a seventh of Earth normal.