Above, us, in the dark shadows of the outer solar system, there is the shape of something unknown, something unspeakable. It waits, it bides its time, and as the days of summer grow longer, so does its voice grow louder.<br><br>On the quiet island of Sarah Ann in the Pacific Ocean, home of the renowned Firmament Foundation, awkward teenager Eirian Calohan has come in search of the mystery of their father's recent demise. Instead, they are confronted with the stark contrast between languid life on the tiny island and an unspeakable cosmic horror.<br><br>Together with their new friends, they set out to unravel the truth surrounding the death of their father and to also uncover just what it is that the Foundation has reached out to in the dark eternal night of the distant void.

All Cats Are Beautiful

“Yes,” she answered after what felt like an age.


Read it, a voice said in the back of her head: Just read it.


“I thought I’d find you here,” Eirian said again, glancing at her nervously.


“I have nowhere else to go,” she said at last, “when I’m not with you, I’m no one, I don’t exist.”


She lifted her head, and looked at them, earnestly, and when she spoke again, it was not to Eirian.


There was darkness. She didn’t know how much time had passed; there was only darkness. Her head swam, dizzying thoughts filling her awareness as if it were a vessel into which a thousand ideas could be poured, infinite sensations.


She swallowed hard, her throat suddenly dry.


“Poppy,” she whispered the name, thinking suddenly of her daughter, and quiet as her voice was, it was heard nonetheless in the observation room above.


Chapter 22