sillycat123
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The cruelest thing about the Nameless was that they made it so easy to pretend that Sunday belonged. They fed that greedy, stupid, childish thing that cried out from within him, tossing enough scraps of amity for him to piece them together into something that felt like home. The curtains only closed when Sunday lay awake at night and stared at the ceiling of the bedroom that wasn’t really his, and he remembered that it started like this and could only end like this: with him, alone in the dark.
Sunday is found by the Astral Express Crew after fleeing Penacony. He accepts their offer to join, and realizes that
a. fitting into this tight-knit group is likely impossible
b. trouble finds the Trailblazers no matter where they go.or, the chronicle of the Astral Express trying, failing, and trying again to fit Sunday into their family.
Russian translation (courtesy of the lovely K_A_M_A) can be found here!
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“Minus two points.” He ignored Clara’s sputtering. “A less stupid question would be, ‘How was a sophisticated robot like Svarog subdued long enough for his core to be removed?’”
Clara couldn’t believe her ears. “I thought that there’s no such thing as a stupid question!”
Dr. Ratio gave a long and weary sigh. One of his hands came up to rub at his temple. “A common and repulsive misconception. There is a stark difference between a thought-out question asked by someone in an honest endeavor to cure their own ignorance, and an irrelevant question that wastes everyone’s time and could easily be answered should the asker undertake the arduous chore of exercising their brain.”
Mr. Svarog returns to the settlement with a gaping hole in his chest and a missing core before collapsing, still as a rock. Clara has no choice but to team up with the acerbic researcher sent by the Intelligensia Guild to track it down and save her robot father.
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Kaveh and Alhaitham, being working professionals, start to schedule intimacy with each other in their appointment books. Under a code name, of course.