日期：2024-04-11 39 Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fastJuliette forced her way through the inner airlock door and scrambled to get it closed. Darknessoverwhelmed her as the heavy door squealed on its hinges and settled against its dry seals. Shegroped for th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 38 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And about his shelves, a beggarly account of empty boxes. Lukas arrived at thirty-four breathless and clutching the small box, more exhausted from the laws hehad broken than this habitual climb to work. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 37 For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. Walker made it to the end of the hallway and found himself leaving the comforting confines of a tightcorridor to enter the wider entrance hall to Mechanical. The room, he saw, was full of youngs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 36 Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissa dateless bargain to engrossing death! The bodies were everywhere. Covered in dust and dirt, suits worn down by the toxic eaters... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 35 One, two, and the third in your bosom. Lukas held the small box tightly against his chest as he hiked up to the landing on thirty-eight. Herewas a mixed-use level of offices, shops, a plastics factory, and one of the small water treatmentplants.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 34 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! The heavy steel doors of the silo parted, and a great cloud of argon billowed out with an angry hiss. The cloud seemed to materiali... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 33 Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. Walker the electrician bent over a cluttered workbench and adjusted his magnifier. The great bulbouslens was attached to his head with a hoop that mightve been uncomfortable had he not been wearingit fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 32 A glooming peace this morning with it brings;The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardond, and some punished. It was the morning of the worst cleaning of Lukass lifeand for onc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 Part 4 The Unraveling 31 The Tragic Historye of Romeus and JulietteThe walk was long, and longer still for her young mind. Though Juliette took few of the steps withher own small feet, it felt as though she and her parents had traveled for weeks. To... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 30 Bernard watched the cleaning from the cafeteria while his techs gathered their supplies in Petersoffice. It was his habit to view these things alonehis techs rarely joined him. They lugged theirequipment out of the office and headed straight for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 29 The climb up was to take three days. Longer than it should have, but there were protocols. A day tripup to Hanks office, a night in his cell, Deputy Marsh coming down the next morning from the midsto escort her up another fifty levels to his offi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 28 Juliette reported to first shift at six, the conversation with Walker playing over and over in her head. There was a sustained and embarrassing applause from the handful of techs present as she entereddispatch. Knox just glared at her from the co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 27 Juliette showed up at Walkers electronics workshop at five, worried she might find him asleep on hiscot, but smelling instead the distinctive odor of vaporized solder wafting down the hallway. Sheknocked on the open door as she entered, and Walke... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 26 She was allowed a visitor, but who would Juliette want to see her like this? No one. So she sat withher back against the bars, the bleak view outside brightening with the rising of an unseen sun, thefloor around her bare of folders and ghosts. Sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 25 The next morning, exhausted, Juliette arrived late at her desk, her legs and back sore from the climbdown to IT and from not getting an ounce of sleep. She had spent the entire night tossing and turning,wondering if shed discovered a box that was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 24 It was thirty-three levels down to IT. Juliette skipped down the steps so swiftly, she had to keep ahand on the inner railing to keep from flying outward into the occasional up-bound traffic. Sheovertook a porter near six, who was startled by bei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 23 The next morning, instead of climbing to her office, Juliette descended five flights to the upper dirtfarm for Marness funeral. There would be no folder for her deputy, no investigation, just thelowering of his old and tired body into the deep so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 22 After filling out reports, discovering Marnes had no next of kin, speaking with the coroner at the dirtfarm, and answering questions from nosy neighbors, Juliette finally took a long and lonely walk upeight flights of stairs, back to her empty of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 21 The next morning, Juliette arrived early at her desk having stolen little more than four hours of sleep. Beside her computer, she saw a package waiting for her: a small bundle wrapped in recycled pulppaper and encircled with white electrical ties... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 20 It was well after ten by the time Juliette pushed herself away from her desk. Her eyes had become toosore to stare at her monitor any longer, too tired to read one more case note. She powered down hercomputer, filed the folders away, killed the o... 阅读全文>>