After a day and much of an evening traveling through the jungles, across the Stubtooth Mountains and over the unforgiving dunes of the Sand Mother Desert, Tuftcheek and Snowmist come ultimately to the shimmering field of black glass that conceals the cryogenic facility where Longvision and his compatriots were stored in deep-freeze centuries ago. A flashlight attached to the barrel of Tuftcheek's rifle casts a beam that shudders back and forth as he leads the way down the ladder into the tunnel. See also Last Flight out of New Alhira, Overrun, and The Imperator Fallen