“Are you positive?”
“Oh, yes.” She peered past him to the glade beyond the tree. “Do you suppose Akeso will mind if we build a cabin here?”
His eyes unfocused briefly. “It’s somewhat dubious about the usefulness of this oddity called ‘shelter,’ but it has no objections.”
“You don’t need to…?”
“Physically interact with Akeso to speak to it? No.” He touched his palm to his chest. “It’s in here now. Part of me.”
“Are you okay with that?”
“Absolutely. Are you?”
She chuckled and nuzzled his nose. “You were always such a nature boy, anyway. Of course I am.”
“Good. I suspect it will prove to be a far better companion than the diati.” He propped up on an elbow and pointed. “Over there, you think?”
“Sure. Or a bit more to the right, closer to the water?”
“Because you like the water. Hey, speaking of water, this isn’t the beach.”
“We’ll get there. Next week, maybe.”
“Whenever you want.” He reached over and wound his hand into her hair as his voice dropped to a deep, lilting tenor. “What do we do now?”
In this new world, where he was alive and so was she? He’d said it himself—anything was possible. Everything was possible. “We write the second story of our lives. Together.”
“What’s past is prologue”
— William Shakespeare
THE STORY OF AURORA HAS COME TO AN END,
BUT THE STORY OF AMARANTHE IS JUST BEGINNING
BOOK 1
EXIN EX MACHINA
COMING IN 2018
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G. S. JENNSEN lives in Colorado with her husband and two dogs. Requiem is her ninth novel, all published by her imprint, Hypernova Publishing. She has become an internationally bestselling author since her first novel, Starshine, was published in March 2014. She has chosen to continue writing under an independent publishing model to ensure the integrity of the Aurora Rhapsody series and her ability to execute on the vision she’s had for it since its genesis.
While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude.
When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the Colorado mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart reading the tabloid headlines and wondering who all of those people are. Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there.
Title Page
Dedication & Acknowledgments
Aurora Rhapsody
Maps
Dramatis Personae
The Story So Far
Contents Overview
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PART I: AS YOU (NEVER) WERE
1: AFS Stalwart II
2: Palaemon
3: Machimis Stellar System
-- Chalmun Station Asteroid
4: AFS Stalwart II
5: AFS Stalwart II
6: Solum
-- Tellus
7: Machimis Stellar System
-- Palaemon
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PART II: ANGELS & MONSTERS
8: AFS Stalwart II
9: Chionis
10: Chionis Stellar System
11: Chionis Stellar System
-- Chionis
12: Chionis
-- Siyane
-- Chionis
13: AFS Stalwart II
-- Siyane
14: Chionis
-- Anarch Post Satus
15: Chionis
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PART III:THE HARSH LIGHT OF NIGHT
17: Tarach
18: Solum
19: Tarach
-- AFS Stalwart II
-- Tarach
20: AFS Stalwart II
21: AFS Stalwart II
22: Anarch Post Satus
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PART IV: SWORDS & SHIELDS
23: Planet PD-8344c
-- Milky Way Sector 9
24: Vigil HQ
25: AFS Stalwart II
-- Siyane
26: Anarch Post Satus
-- Livad
27: Tarach
-- Nopreis
-- Tarach
28: Tarach
29: Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy
-- Solum
30: Siyane
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PART V: SOULS AFIRE
31: AFS Stalwart II
-- Anarch Post Satus
32: AFS Stalwart II
-- AFS Tamao
33: Lastisi Stellar System
-- Lastisi
34: AFS Saratoga
-- Machimis Central Command Annex
35: Meleto
36: Solum
37: Luna
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PART VI: WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS
39: AFS Saratoga
40: Siyane
41: AFS Stalwart II
42: Chionis
-- Anarch Post Satus
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p; 43: Tarach
-- Milky Way Galactic Core
44: AFS Stalwart II
45: Taygeta
46: AFS Stalwart II
-- Milky Way Galactic Core
47: AFS Stalwart II
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PART VII: STARDUST
48: Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy
-- Aurora
49: AFS Stalwart II
50: AFS Stalwart II
51: Presidio
-- Idryma
52: Hirlas
53: Siyane
--Presidio
54: Romane
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CODA: EVER ON & ON
Earth
Akeso
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ANR
Author’s Note
About the Author
Requiem Blurb