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Make this Boss Star close-gäng. That would really fuck the Luzians off.

Not all can bear the approach.

Most of these people are either dead or missing.

Three hundred tiny windows, ghost hands tapping on the glass.

In the crowded rooms of your life, faces fragment into variations of themselves.

There's a lot of smog and granite cloud in Novessa... but you can see more stars than you might think.

What began at one shrine ends at another.

Somewhere beneath the Noscorrentes Sea, a bloated body turns to face the sky.

Somewhere within the warren-like streets of Lower Viudas, an old man pulls a pelota cap over his face and ducks into a neon-lit bookmakers.

At the bottom of a hidden jail, a trembling old man turns and looks at the blank space where a window should be.

You all seem uncomfortable in a crowd.

Tension on the surface, yet all bound fast by an invisible thread.

You're the highest thing in Portofiro. She can see you from up there.

Pray to Canopus.

A black hole in human form. Devourer of stars.

An envoy of the shadow war.

Afraid to carry any more of your words upon itself.

The blackness between the stars, Arch Emissary of the Deathkingdom.

Bar a slight dip in air pressure.

The light cowers from you.

Despite its reputation as an unfortunate star, every Luzian is taught to rely on Canopus above all others.

This is a man with a system. A tried-and-tested one.

You went East -- he went South.

This is not a short term solution...

He's subsisting on these alone.

There's a coil wired into the wall, fused to the socket with melted plastic and faith. That's where he eats, listening to currents crackle overhead.

A body in a ditch. A back alley arrest. A name scraped off a plaque and folded into bureaucracy. You'd assumed a lot, but not this sad half-death.

You were a full world away. Counting down days in cigarette stubs -- a thick curtain drawn over Novessa, watching a phone that never rang.

Famous for sterile logistics, tax-flexible exports, and a stunning aversion to political alignment.

You sense the long shadow of EMTERR hanging over this.

Curtains twitch at the windows. Inside, stacks of dog-eared dream and memory contaminate each other.

The remote viewers! Spoon-bending vöyeurs!

If he did, he moved fast.

Rhetorical question. You're the only one standing, of course it was you.

The one that looks just like yours.

There's something in her hand.

Trying to displace herself again.

She smiles. Huntress.

It's KALEIDOSCOPE's.

Excitement sliding into her voice. This gorefest is a painting of her own personal revenge.

She shivers, smiles. Trying to dispel an unwanted thought.

Her mind's catching up to her, too. Adrenaline wearing off.

A slightly weightless tone in her voice. Gravity suspended.

Figure out how the pump system works.

And as you've established, it's possible that hiding somewhere within it is a secret jail.

And an operant should always be thorough when searching for clandestine spaces.

Congratulations. You're as complicated as an inanimate object that literally has nothing in it -- it's completely hollow.

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