4338.209 · July 28, 2018 AD
The Push That Built the Walls
He told Jenny he'd be back in a couple of hours. Just a chat about a job. The money was suspicious and the location remote, but desperation has a way of silencing instinct. When he hesitated at the doorway, the decision was made for him.
Nial Triffett's business had been collapsing for twelve months when Luke Smith called with an impossible offer—one hundred thousand in cash for urgent work. He drove into the Collinsvale hills telling himself it was just a consultation. Just looking at plans.
The push came without warning. One moment he was admiring swirling colours on a hallway wall. The next, he was falling through them.
Bixbus gained a professional fencer that day—someone who could build the defences the settlement desperately needed. It also gained its first arrival by violence. A threshold crossed that couldn't be uncrossed.
Jenny is still waiting.
