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

“The medical reports?” the young man with the sandy hair asked.


Seymour glanced down again at the clipboard in his hands.


“Well, physically she’s fine, save for some bruises obtained during her struggle to pull herself out of the throne, but we expected that.”


The shadow was long, long enough to engulf the hollowed-out hangar in which the creature had been grown. How beautiful it was, Labyrinth thought, how majestic, how inhuman.


“Ah. Well. That might be more of an issue.”


He waited, gazing up at the creature, feeling an odd stirring, a strange excitement in his stomach whenever he looked at it, the excitement of the knowledge, the power, knowing that he could just as well bring it to life as he could trigger the self-destruct mechanism within its heart


“She hasn’t come to work today, has she?”


Chapter 43