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Down in the generator rooms at Kingdom Fort True Believer Centre, transfect ‘E’ is confessing, and the Nathans are taking it very badly …

Assumpta Viali likes her solitude. A chronic loner, she dispenses rough justice ‘as required’ for Eustace Crane II, the Nathans’ crotchety Head of Council.

For Eustace, however, nothing has gone right since Tribulation. He’s been left the leader of a bunch of pithless wonders hiding in their crumbling citadels, something blasphemous tucked in their basements. And while his scary minder heads off on secret business of her own, out in the Sorry Plains the Children of the Maglev prepare for the Afterlife.

But one among them has a far less sacrificial future in mind.