Chapters 32-33 Summary

Chapter 32

While writing all of these events down, Raul discovers that he can share the memories and past moments of all the players involved, and that this is why his account is so detailed, even when it involves events and conversations that he did not personally witness. Raul has a vision of a moment on the Consul's ship after the fall of the farcasters, in which the Keats cybrid and the Consul are playing chess, and Keats says that he will be returning to the Core soon to incite a civil war which will aid his daughter in the future.

Raul remembers that Aenea said she had had a child, and he concludes that the mysterious observer from the Lions, Tigers, and Bears must be the father. Determined to locate the child, Raul finally hears the music of the spheres and learns to freecast. He...