Tor Essentials Novels & Stories

Xander said. "No," Silas said. "It's simpler. You're the last point in the line. You don't generate anything. You absorb what comes through and route it into the stone below you." A pause. "Put your hands on the bedrock and stay there until Elena lifts her hands off the node." Xander found the bedrock beneath the thin soil of the ridge checkpoint and put his palms flat on it. "Ready," he said. Torr recalibrated in six minutes, which was faster than Marcus had estimated and which Torr later attributed to the specific motivation of watching automated gunships descend toward a mountain containing his people.