Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring - Plot & Excerpts
Slowly, in shreds and shards, he became aware of the rustle of the Crust-trees, the tired stink of his own body, the endless yellow glow of the Air pushing into his closed eyecups. He’d used a few loops of frayed rope to bind himself loosely to a branch of an outlying tree, and now he could feel the undeniable reality of the ropes as they dug into the thin flesh of his chest and thighs. Then the pain started. His stomach, empty for so long, seemed to be slowly imploding, filling the centre of his body with a dull, dragging ache. His joints protested when he began to stir - stiff joints were a wholly unexpected side-effect of hunger, reducing his movements on bad days to those of an old man - and there was a sharp sheet of pain stretched round the inside of his skull, as if his brain were pulling away from the bone. He jammed his eyes closed and wrapped his arms around himself, feeling his own bony elbows digging into his ribs. How strange it was that he had never slept more deeply in his life than in these impossibly difficult times.
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