Exurbia: A Novel About Caterpillars (An Infinite Triptych Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
An enormous ornate chamber. Murals drawn in scallix ink of ancient Exurbic battles were weaved across the floor and walls. From the capriglobes hung painted likenesses of the former tershes.‘Well,’ said the man who must have been the tersh, ‘you have returned. And I must admit, your appearance differs somewhat to the descriptions. Nonetheless, I am glad to see you alive.’261 bowed ceremoniously and knelt to a knee. A pack of gungovs stood gathered in strategic positions about the hall, all still, and all watching him with impartial orange scrutiny. They have no human guards, thought 261. Have they become so distrusting of their own species?‘Your hair,’ said the syndicate woman. ‘Did the Ixenites do that to you?’‘In a sense. I was exposed to a testosterone catalyst. My body has undergone a number of changes.’‘I don’t doubt that,’ said the woman. ‘Like the tersh, I am glad to witness your safe return. But to what do we owe that return, 261? We barely believed it when the guards gave us word of your presence at the tower gates.
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