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Sadeem looked puzzled. “But they forgot. All of them. The kids. The adults. Everyone.”

Clara closed her eyes. Watched a small blip of internal light move from a live node to a darker one. The new node brightened a hair, then passed the light on.

She was about to try and describe it when the walls began to shake. Dust sifted, and Mullah began to shout. Then Clara saw it, all at once — inside her mind before she saw it with her eyes, as the people of the distant village saw it first, and uploaded the knowledge directly to her screaming cortex.
 

“It’s a quake,” Sadeem said.
 

“No. It’s not.”
 

They walked up the tunnels, reached the cave’s mouth, and emerged into the open air. There they saw it together: overhead, covering half the sky, was the enormous Deathbringer that had supposedly left Earth three months earlier.
 

Sadeem gaped up at the thing, his Mullah ranks speechless beside him.

“They were supposed to leave,” Sadeem said. “Why didn’t they go?”
 

Clara looked inside. And in one gestalt leap, she knew the answer in full.
 

“Because this time it’s different,” she said. “This time, they
can’t.”
 

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