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“Time moves slowly but passes quickly.” - Alice Walker Summer, Earth Year 2901- Wyrd Town, The Stretch District Sewers, Mars “Time, time, do I have enough time”? emotions could still be confusing to the King, so he was not sure whether this was excitement or panic he felt. Perhaps both were possible. He shifted his attention to the Drone, waking the Hynes from his programed rest period. Unlike the base consciousness he had the pawns maintain in the Grix, the King had wiped every bit of...

“Mars you say? Bah! It’s still a fucking Dump! The whole bloody place is a sewer. They may mask the stench in districts like Industry Heights, but the ‘cleanest’ parts actually house the worst of the filth.” - Duke Reginald Mantle, Earth Alliance Council Member in Good Standing. The Dusters in Under Land. Summer, Earth Year 2901- Old Sewer Surface Access Hatch’, The Stretch District, Mars. “We could drop one these babies down there first.” Bambi suggested, leaning up against her parked...

“…And I ask you who is the tramp? Who is the king? Who can say?” -From The King in Rags by Peter Kearney Summer, Earth Year 2901- X Monitoring Station Alpha’, The Stretch District Sewers, Mars “Popcorn, I wish I had some popcorn”. As the Grix sat listening to and questioning the machine called Winston, that stray thought occasionally hovered in the back of the King’s mind as he absorbed everything the pawns were hearing. The persistent mind wander was exclusively projected by Pawn #2. The...