"Jay Lake - The Sky that Wraps the World Round, past the Blue and Into the Black" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lake Jay)

blue sky. With luck, we'd carry forward to the dying blue at the end of time.

"Time," I said, trying the word in my mouth. "Do you mean the future?"

The cook nodded vigorously. "Future, ah."

Once I'd finished eating the magnificent duck he'd prepared, I trudged back to my workroom.
I'd already bargained away almost all of my time, but I could create time for others, in glowing
blue fragments. It didn't matter who was looking for me. Huang would do as he pleased. My
sins were so great they could never be washed away, not even in a radioactive rain.

I could spend what time was left to me bringing people like the old cook a little closer to
heaven, one shard after another.