Earth's Door

“But in some way, my goal is the same as your goal. Noble—and eternal. What you must understand is that without the darkness”—he began to lift his phial, and a fiery tumult swirled inside—“there . . . is . . . no . . . light.”The vast plains of South Dakota offer Tarin solace from both his dreams of an unknown past and the rumblings of a new global war while a mysterious AI oversees society. Yet a haunting melody plays over the stillness of the grasslands, a melody he cannot escape—one that se...