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====Chapter 23: Newton Sleeps==== | ====Chapter 23: Newton Sleeps==== | ||
This felt like America to Aphra Behn, a new world unlike any she had known. Nate cradles Jeova off to the side, and Aphra bends over Larissa, | This felt like America to Aphra Behn, a new world unlike any she had known. Nate cradles Jeova off to the side, and Aphra bends over Larissa, who begs Behn to end her life, to stop the blackness from escaping. Aphra is unable to do this, unwilling. But she finds a minute imperfection in Larissa's suit and tears at it, more and more, ripping it open. Without the shift, Larissa can't travel, can't escape, and neither can the parasite within her. The parasite attacks Behn using Larissa's body, strangles her. Nate attempts to help and is swatted away for his trouble. | ||
The parasite notices Alice Lynch, the only member of Faction Paradox not working to heal the world, and turns its attention towards her - she | The parasite notices Alice Lynch, the only member of Faction Paradox not working to heal the world, and turns its attention towards her - she can leave this world behind. Nate Silver picks the Egg up off the ground and tells it to help Alice - a cocoon of light envelops Alice and Larissa. Inside Greenaway notices Larissa interwoven with a man made of blackness, a globe for a head, stitched into her, draining her. The crucified man threatens Alice, says that its current host is wasting away already, and it needs a new one. Alice pulls herself away, and Larissa and Alice fall out of the cocoon. The Egg shrinks down, before growing back into a tree and then a man with a globe for a head, shifting colors between white and black and grey, before finally collapsing and shrinking into a dull pebble, inert. | ||
As the members of the Service slowly begin to clean | As the members of the Service slowly begin to clean the mess, Larissa offers to work with Faction Paradox, now that she's stuck on Earth. And on the banks of the Thames, isolated and alone once again, Nate Silver takes one last look at the needle he removed from Jeova, tossing it into the water. | ||
====Chapter 24: Glory==== | ====Chapter 24: Glory==== |