The story continues one generation later. Kairos and Lyra have answered a calling beyond Mars — and left behind a son. He does not forget. He does not forgive. And he has built a ship.
Parts One and Two: Beginnings and Shadow. The son of Kairos learns what his family survived. Then the hunt begins — and so does a love unlike any other.
Parts Three and Four: Resolute and Convergence. Every planet is coming to Mars. Every journey ends at the truth.
Son of Kairos and Lyra. His mother’s silver, his own fire.
They were behind the Moon the whole time.
Triton’s warriors, in full array.
From a red sun, thirty-nine light-years away. Convergence.
The same sky, a harder people. Convergence.
Part Two of Volume One.
Part Four of Volume Two.
Four hands, one secret, and a box that must stay dark.
Some doors are built to open only once.
The best engineer on Mars. Due a promotion.
Four kinds of crew, one table, one very necessary wall.
The world of Book Two.
Silver of his mother, fire of his own. The man who lives in every world.
A world awake again — biocities joined by glowing roads, and a face the planet never forgot.
A billion years inside the storm — and to Zzoertians, a normal day.
One Martian, helmet off, before the half that said no.
Streets of crystal, a garden already blooming — home before they even arrived.
Two airlocks, one table, and a planet between them.
Most of the hugs. — Sstyl, keeping count.
Promotion granted. He is still counting the hugs.
Master of peoples, from under the ice of Europa. He walks on land when he chooses to.
Born in Saturn’s helium. No limbs, six gold rings, and a voice made of speed.
From the geyser fields of Triton. Slow, but unstoppable.
Martians call it Coldstone. The Nymbrak call it the Martian Miracle.
Also of Triton. You have not met them yet.
Under the far ice of Europa. They sing through the floor of the sea.
Seven feet of Mantid, thirty-nine light-years from home. He came to conquer.