Part One
A Thousand Years of Borrowed Time
The Aetherian Reach has not fought a war in one thousand and six years. It has four days left.
Part Two
The Day the Stars Went Dark
One negotiation, and then ninety minutes. That is the whole of it.
Part Three
Ashes on the Edge of Nothing
Fourteen months on a world that never heard of them, at four marks a shift, against thirty-one a week.
Part Four
The Vault of the Father
He spent twenty years looking for a cure. What he found instead, he built.
Part Five
The Flame That Burns Backwards
She asked him for the names. Every one, both sides, no rounding. He kept the promise perfectly.
Part Six
The Weight of Stars
Two set-pieces, and between them six small rooms in which two people finally tell each other the truth.
Part Seven
The Last Light
Seventeen minutes and fifty-four seconds, spent all at once, by a woman who weighed twenty-six point eight kilograms.