Chapter Four: The Work Order from Age Seven

Bai studied the vein on his hand. “Because the last Creator turned recovery authority into a person.” Gunfire resumed. Bai opened a hidden freight shaft to the Dome Hall. Above them, Shen stood amid the Prism's possibilities. One showed Han Duo seated inside a golden machine while Shen's sister lay motionless beside him. The Prism supplied a date: the day, three years earlier, when Han claimed she had died in an accident. Shen shot his Obsidian communicator. Lin stepped onto the lift. Hundreds of futures opened above, almost all ending in death. In only one, Shen moved his gun away from Lin.