The pride of Kusari architecture, once a tourist attraction and icon of the culture, Tekagi's Arch now sits lonesome and dark, lit with only the rare light and illuminated only under the shadow of dark rumors, evil spirits, horrible technology.
From the near space, shivering in the cold, thirteen young girls watched a ship light out from the port as the air in their thin suits slowly turned from oxygen to waste..
Twelve were orbiting on the far side of rocks, and sixteen more were already dead.
