The Last Howl Of New Kyoto

like a fantasy abo

e sulfur-laced stratosphere. Below, the once-blue Earth is sprawled in ruin, fractured, overrun by nature too strange to name. Riko Ayane stared

Still, from up here it felt like a long-ago memory-nature's fury at what mankind had done. She could sense the stor

thrown by the jagged horizon stretching ov

n was interrupted by the soft hum of the devic

o Batch #48B Cleared

ch samples usually come out rather routinely. The genetic material was a

aiting, held by two floating drones. Riko's caught her breath in her throat. She knew tha

ened, and a cold wave of air followed. Suspended like a ghost in mid-fli

n and changed

red, hardly audible. "Wh

of numbers indicating coordinates in the Mongolian Wastes, a

ced over the terminal. The findings flashed on screen-first

nt gene. It was a mirror match to someth

rmant, unlisted line buried in her genetic data-hidden, unnoti

cal artefact. She was observing h

murmured, he

Her body's reaction-and the data-did not lie

he truth sank upon her. She had only found the gene guiding a line