Begin Again
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The second they land on Vertumna, Solane starts acting weird. Cagy. Like they’re keeping secrets. No one else seems to notice, but that’s because humans are stupid. Sometimes Dys feels like the only one on this entire planet who ever takes any time to think.
...Whatever. It's not like he needs backup. Dys can figure this out on his own.
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After watching Dys disappear into the Array in a thousand different lifetimes, Solane has had enough. They’re just going to have to keep Dys from ever finding out about the Gardeners. How hard could it be?
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- Part 1 of Begin Again
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[In the wake of the Peace End, Tangent grapples with her loss of purpose—and with the alien that’s moved into her colony.]
Symbiosis holds out a vial containing— Is that a pale violet finger? No. That’s absurd. Tangent isn’t a child, clutching at Occam’s Razor in the hopes of cutting her way to the most obvious, infantile conclusion. He’s brought her a sample of a—a new edible root, or a fungus or something. Another instance of appalling biomimicry from the lawless flux of the Vertumnan wild.
“What is it?” she asks warily.
The alien smiles wide. “It’s my finger!”
“…It’s your finger.”
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- Part 2 of Begin Again
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Tired of the time loop grind, Solane sets out into the wild in search of something new.
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- Part 3 of Begin Again
