Marked From Birth
They were shouting into the dark: "We are still moving. Are you?"
"The pulses are answering!" Kiri shouted, her "Maintenance-Sphere" vibrating with a strange, syncopated beat. The response wasn't a signal of light, but a "Gravity-Tug." Something out there was "Pulling" back. "It’s not a language of words, Elen. It’s a 'Language-of-Load.' They are showing us their 'Stress-Points.' They are 'Industrial-Realities' like us, but their 'Fuel' is different. One burns with 'Crystal-Friction,' another with 'Gravitational-Shear.' They are the 'Other-Engines' of existence."