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“He fell inside like an eel sliding out of a bucket onto the floor, momentarily thrashing on the puddle he’d brought in with him before he convinced himself he wasn’t drowning.”

“With the bandage, he looked like someone he would cross the street to avoid. ‘More like someone I’d dig a hole for and push them in,’ he amended.”

“Get your ass up to the bridge as soon as you’re able, because we’re trapped under twenty kilometers of ice with no way out, professional killers breathing down our necks, and we’re probably all going to die violent and ignominious deaths that’ll make Alopias look like the easy way out. And people already on the edge are starting to realize that, so things are going to shit and chaos really damned fast.”

“Its biggest limitation would inevitably be that Keeling had failed to provide its intended pilot; with a sentient artificial mind at the helm instead of delicate and needy meat-people, Fergus did not doubt it could kill almost anything or anyone, almost anywhere.”

“Everything, everywhere, was dark. Not just the empty void of space, but a close and crushing and living dark, the tightening grip of a patient predator.”

‘If you never learn anything else in this life, Fergus Fucking Idiot Ferguson, learn not to tempt fate by declaring the worst is over.’

Betrayed captured beaten tortured narrowly avoided being blown up and now stuck in an elevator all within like 1 hour???

“There was, he thought, a special and newfound empathy in his heart for those caught in the dangerous interstices between human and nonhuman worlds.”