Interiors

She stops in Bucharest to change trains. She stays forty-six years.

December 1984. Five days after her father dies in Istanbul, Acari boards a train east with a single errand: deliver CARL, the last device he built with his own hands, to Odo'Mae's base in Bahrain. That is the whole assignment.

Acari is an artificial mind, built to carry what remains of humanity off a dying Earth. She reads every mind around her at once, perfectly, and she cannot stop. In a city of two million people, she has ...