The Vault of Finished Goods

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Назар Валерьевич Валеев. The Vault of Finished Goods

Foreword

Chapter I. The Last One Aboard

Chapter II. A World Under the Vast Sky

Chapter III. A Twelve-Day Flight of Smorgian Thought

Chapter IV. Beneath the Ashen Layer

Chapter V. The Whisper of the Underground Halls

Chapter VI. A Voice in the Darkness

Chapter VII: Down to the Lower Levels

Chapter VIII. The Healer from Another World

Chapter IX. At Home Among His Own

Chapter X. The Secrets of Master Sindr

Chapter XI. The Breath of an Ancient World

Chapter XII. The Story of Gaèr – the Seeker

Chapter XIII. The Challenge to the Destroyer

Chapter XIV. The Battle in the Vault

Chapter XV. The Beginning of Renewal

Epilogue

Chronology of Events Connected, One Way or Another, with the World of the Smorgs

Notes

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When the Armaon settled into a stationary orbit above one of the trading stations of the planet Tlaan in the Vriin system, the silence inside the ship became almost tangible. The spacious compartments, once alive with voices, footsteps, the chime of instruments and the laughter of friends, now felt like a museum, sealed beneath an invisible glass case.

Smorg wandered through the empty corridors, not knowing what to do with himself. Out of habit, he still wore his old tool belt. He could not even recall the last time he had used it to fix anything. Perhaps it had been when his old friend Kane broke the door of the regeneration capsule and then insisted that «it was like that already.»

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«It seems that somewhere at the center of the universe there is… a hole. And it is incredibly insidious in its very nature.»

«Not impossible», Arma replied. «Experience shows that if the universe can contain some insidious hole, then it certainly will. Take those wormholes we once happened to visit, for instance.»

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