Part Five, Mir: Chapters 37 & 38 Summary

Five years from the beginning of the Discontinuity, the apes are still captive. Grasper is nearly six, and one morning they wake to find everything has changed. The eye becomes suddenly bright, and once Seeker looks at it, she cannot look away. An invisible grip explores her intimately and moves her appendages as though they are no longer her own. Grasper picks up stalks and ties them in knots. Lines appear on the eye and a pattern of sorts emerges. Then Grasper is affected and it is as though they are both in a laboratory of sorts.

Bisesa moves into the temple of Marduk where she now spends all of her time. She has come to think of the eye as a watcher of sorts, sensing an intelligence behind it. One day her phone tells her that...