Chapter 144

• Chapter One Hundred and Forty Four
• The moment Raymond asked him to define the pain, the floodgates of his memory burst open, completely unbidden. Images, scents, and sounds from his childhood came rushing back with the force of a tidal wave.
• He could remembered a scorching afternoon when he was seven years old, burning with a sudden, catastrophic fever that made his vision blur. Tyles had been away on a continental business trip, and Orion City had been gridlocked by an unprecedented labor strike. The streets were an absolute parking lot of unmoving steel.