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Chapter 6

Part II. Testament

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Part III. Second Exodus

Chapter 10

Chapter 11


Second Genesis

Part I
Exodus

Chapter 1
The tree named Yggdrasil plunged toward the heart of the galaxy at very nearly the speed of light, safe
within a cone of shadow from a sleet of radiation that otherwise would have charred it to ash in
microseconds.

It still clutched the remains of a comet in its roots, so water was not yet a problem. But light and gravity
were strangely wrong, interfering with its tropisms.

Yggdrasil was a very confused tree.

Ahead, always, was a funnel of dancing sparks. Behind was a terribly bright light. Yggdrasil's senses told
it that it was in the terrifying grip of a one-g gravitational field that was tugging it toward that unnatural
sun. It had been trying for twenty years to escape. But when it tried to turn the reflective surfaces of its
leaves toward the perpendicular, something always frustrated it.

Yet, wonder of wonders, Yggdrasil never fell. An equal and opposite force applied to a small region of
its central trunk prevented that. Yggdrasil knew in its vegetable fashion that a girdle of foreign substance
encircled its waist, but its senses were not adequate to tell it about the tether and the gargantuan
turnbuckle that anchored the girdle.

A strange thing had happened to the stars as well. They swarmed around the tree in rainbow hoops of
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