“In Seldon’s Shadow”

Back on Synnax, Gaal and Salvor are starting to plan their escape from the planet, where the waters are still rising and a violent storm is brewing. Salvor thinks her ship can still fly, despite being submerged for 138 years. She’ll just need to reboot it, which will involve pulling a Poseidon Adventure and swimming underwater for an uncomfortable amount of time. If they utilize Gaal’s freaky breath-holding skills, they might make it. Mom and daughter buddy mission time! They succeed in raising the battered ship to the surface, but the whole mother-daughter thing still feels weird. “We’ve known each other a day,” Gaal says, pointing out that she didn’t even know Salvor existed until she met her. They’re all each other has left, though, and they agree to play it by ear.

With a nudge from the Prime Radiant, who whispers to him where to meet her next (just quietly enough so that we can’t make out her words), Hari thinks back to his childhood memory again—about folds, dimensions, and shadows—and brainiacs his consciousness out of captivity. At the same moment, Salvor is begging Gaal to release Hari so that he can help them fix their ship as a hurricane closes in. The situation is dire! Just then, Hari blips into view and he is furious. “It’s time you and I had a reckoning,” he snarls at Gaal. Can a hologram punch you in the face? Because Gaal looks awfully worried.

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