Chapter 10, The Neutronium Alchemist: Conflict Summary

Chapter 10 focuses entirely on events in the habitat Valisk. Bonney gathers together the possessed to hunt and kill Dariat. Dariat agrees to enter the neural strata of Valisk to join with Rubra, but wishes to get Tatiana off Valisk first. Rubra instructs them to go to the spaceport, where she can be jettisoned in a life pod and picked up by the Edenist voidhawks. They use the tube trains to head to the spaceport, but Bonney and the possessed are blowing up the tube tracks. The station ahead of Dariat is blocked. Rubra simultaneously attacks all the possessed at the various stations, electrocuting the two possessed guarding the station ahead of Dariat. As Dariat and Tatiana proceed, Bonney sends more possessed down to investigate. Dariat kills one, but as others come towards them he realizes...