Chapter 1
The Treasure Pavilion was the pride of Lord Linne Mosmorde of the Demon Moth Planet.Walking into it felt like stepping into a corridor where time itself had been compressed.Along both sides floated relics from before the Age of Star Navigation: thousands of paintings with cracked pigments in which graceful brushwork was still visible; ancient machines of every description, each accompanied by a plaque giving its name and year of invention; and countless fragile, yellowed paper books, held aloft by force fields, their contents as incomprehensible to modern readers as heavenly script.
