The Sigian Bracelet

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CHAPTER 1.

Colenam, or Cole, as friends used to call him, was the “jure”1 of Sigarion, a small rural town raised close to the oceanfront. In a normal city, the jure held an important public position. Except that on the planet Antyra II there were no normal cities, and especially not Sigarion.

With nothing better to occupy his mind, Cole stepped outside his dome and started to gaze mindlessly at the evening sky when a loose feeling of guilt pinched him by the tail. This time he wasn’t bothered that Antyra’s star was about to set over another day strewn with delays, the workers—brought to level the nearby hill—again falling behind schedule. It didn’t bother him at all because their supervisor promised to keep them working for a few more hours to make up for the lost time. In the light of the night. His guilt was to feel happy—happy for the first time in his life—that Antyra’s planetary system2 was locked inside a fiery firewall, the belly of the eternal god Beramis. His light was now helping the workers to keep up with the excavation.

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