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

“What was that?” Seymour asked, from lightyears away. “We just suddenly registered a massive spike in your mental activity. It looked…it looked like you were dreaming.”


“Still awake,” she growled, struggling to form the words, “not sleeping on job.”


She heard an intake of breath before her father spoke.


That was when she became aware of it. A sense of expectation ran through her, a flash of those old memories—father, first boyfriend, ex-husband, Poppy—and then something flared into existence before the prow of the vessel, a silent corona of light at the heart of an absence which was no planet, nothing but darkness, shadow, an absence of stars.


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