Scepter of Nowhere, part 6: Wormwood
Scepter of Nowhere, part 6: Wormwood, is now posted.
I was standing on the white diamond roof of a tower above the edge of the stratosphere. In the same way I could, by an act of will, eliminate the sensation of cold, I made it so the near-vacuum did not disturb me. My skin gleamed with some strange, luminous coating.