Judgment
“He’d left the silver sphere traced with glowing blue lines on the middle of his bedspread, right in plain sight. If anyone were watching this room, it’d be obvious what he’d done, and possibly reveal the true nature of his intentions. But if he understood the catch-22, nobody could be watching the room because he’d stolen the device that did the watching. Or was it really that simple? He stopped his feet. Stared at the sphere. Felt it calling to him like a compulsion. Just minutes ago, he’d wa...tched Moscow getting annihilated during the first phase of the occupation, just after the motherships arrived. Peers, like everyone else, knew all about Moscow; it was the 9/11 and Paris terrorism of the Astral era. Moscow meant violence, intimidation, distrust, and an instinctual (if somewhat cowardly) impetus toward unconditional obedience. Moscow’s destruction had been the alpha dog asserting his dominance; it was the new guy in prison beating the shit out of the largest inmate in the yard.MoreLess
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