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“In a small voice, he said, “They say you are a prophet, Marlowe, but you’re blind if you can’t see this is the end.”

“Without having to be told I knew that here was the Scourge of Earth. The Prophet. The Aeta Ba-Aetane. The Shiomu. The Pale King. Syriani Dorayaica.”

“This is beyond me, Hadrian,” he said simply before adding, “Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps you are not the same boy I knew on Delos.”

“Don’t you let us down,” she said. “You get your ass kicked, I’ll never let
you hear the end of it.”

“The whole galaxy won’t let me hear the end of it,” I said to her, and let
her go, and turning, I went out from shuttle and back to my guards, and
passed with them out from under the clouds and the flying towers . . . and into legend

We don’t know anything yet,”

“And when we do?” Valka asked. She tapped my fist with a finger, and I
relaxed my damaging grip. “What happens then?”

“Vengeance,” I said, and for once, Valka did not argue with me.