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

“Magcat! Fly!” they shouted simply, as if the animal needed their instruction.


With an angry hiss, the magcat spread his wings and slowed the arc of his descent, pulling up from the water’s edge and tearing upwards.


“Taichou, impact!” Sumire announced.


The first of the sisters, the one in the white kimono, tensed her legs, and then leapt up into the air, wings unfolding as she raced into the air after the magcat. Sumire opened her mouth to issue commands to the second of the children and was abruptly cut off by Mauve’s instruction to Penelope.


“Knock that kid out!” she called, fiercely, stamping her bare foot in the surf.


The epimeliad reacted with lightning quick swiftness, darting forwards, pulling her right arm back, and raising her fist in an uppercut that lifted the girl in the black kimono off her feet and sent her stumbling backwards into the sand.


Chapter 27