Gaea Dos PaSSos herself is bored.
criou uma criaturas do tamanho de T-rex para comerem as árvores e produzirem pasta de papel para que se lixassem as eleições
inventou uma coisa do tamanho de uma carruagem que comia a polpa e deitava fezes asfaltantes
e sorridentes hipergado a que se tira carne sem ser preciso exterminá-lo
e árvores que se dividem espontâneamente em toros
e o eleitorado ficou contente
She arranges for streams of people looking for
miracle cures to come to her from Earth, and then sets them a task: do
something "heroic" (for example, travel once round the circumference of
the great wheel), and their wishes will be granted. This is her way of
ensuring an enduring supply of entertainment, as she arranges hazards
for them to overcome or die trying. It also serves as a way for her to
be useful to Humanity by providing cures for diseases, so that they do
not turn on her and destroy her. Meanwhile, she sits in the hub with her
sycophants and watches old movies.
Chris Major and Robin the Nine-Fingered are two such
pilgrims. Chris suffers from psychotic episodes. Robin, a member of a
group of latter day witches, has a strange epilepsy that only manifests
itself in gravity higher than the Moon's. With Gaby, Cirocco and four TitanideS
they set out on a heroic trek. Gaby and Cirocco have a hidden agenda:
they want to canvass the regional brains in order to overthrow Gaea,
whom they see as being irretrievably insane.
During the trip, we begin to learn what drove Cirocco to her
alcoholism. As the price for the discontinuation of the Angel/Titanide
War, Gaea has made the Titanides
dependent on Cirocco to have children. Only her saliva can activate the
eggs they produce, so that they can be implanted in a host mother to
grow. The responsibility for an entire race's survival is more than
Cirocco can bear; with resignation from her position as Wizard
impossible and suicide ruled out by her love for the Titanides, her only
release is alcohol-fueled oblivion.
The hazards of the trip include buzz-bombs, living creatures
with jet engines that live high up on the support cables. They attack
living beings, including humans and Titanides, attempting to capture
them as food, and present a particular threat to pilgrims with their
barbed noses and razor-sharp wings. Slowly the journey reduces the crew,
killing first one of the Titanides and then, in an attack plotted by
the crazed crewmember Gene, Gaby. All are separated. Cirocco and her
Titanide companion Hornpipe are left on the Rim surface, while Robin and
Chris are trapped underground, with the Titanide Valiha, who is not
only pregnant but has been badly injured. Eventually Robin has to leave
Chris to tend Valiha, and climb back to the surface for help. She finds
herself in one of the Arctic cold zones of the habitat, and almost dies
before being rescued
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