The Refracting Trees

They ride the elevator in silence except for an outburst of anger from Naida. Flux climbs onto Azure to comfort Cataract. They leave the observatory and Azure prepares the funeral ritual for Sarqo in which the body is consumed by blue flames.

Back on the road they traverse the Gall Grass where they are pursued by a Cold Vome Patrol but Naida takes them out with her sniper rifle. A hypo-psychic miasma rolls over the landscape an dampens the spirits. During camp Saffron inspects the strange looking puncture marks that Azure and Naida display and concludes that they are a sign of some kind of machine parasite infection.

On the horizon strangely bent lights announce the Refracting Trees. Inside the forest of tree-silicon symbionts Naida is hit by a shard of broken light that lodges in her eye. They follow the ditch road carved through the forest by centuries of heavy vechs. One of these gargantuan creatures can be seen from afar crushing through the trees apparently possessed by some kind of Phosphor Ghosts who only Naida can see through her newly acquired vision. Saffron harvests a bloom of chitinous flowers before they leave the forest.

Aurorae of light dance in the sky when they approach the Spectrum Palace, an unassuming drum-shaped building of dull metal and rivets that is guarded to the South by a wall of rainbows. They arrive at the visitor camp between two hills where they are welcomed by a  smiling woman in ceremonial robes.  Before they settle down in the cube shaped building that they are assigned to Naida hands over Satrap 88’s crystal snail in order to update their memory.

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