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 creature remained above him, impassive.


There was another way to kill the creature, he thought; a way that he had not told the children. Several floors above, the great imagination engines hummed and throbbed with life; all it would take, now that the creature had consumed the mass-produced clones, was to simply turn off the engines, and reset all homunculi.


He swallowed hard, and knew what he must do.


Frantically, he urged the bike forwards, his earlier pattern of leisurely drifting replaced by urgency and desperation. Sweat ran down his spine, a line of moisture that bound his thin T-shirt and heavy jacket to the curve of his frame.


“Alaina!” he shouted, swerving and falling in line with her as she sped towards the Firmament Foundation on her own bicycle. “Alaina, what’s going on?”


Her eyes looking straight ahead, she did not pause to spare a glance.


“The final battle, Yuusuke,” she said calmly. “Our friends need our help.”


Chapter 68