A moment of brilliant, awful light. A landscape, scoured and remade. An entire nation, simply gone. La Blessure is the graveyard of millions, a wasteland of quantum flux and devastation born from the impact of the Esperanza space station. Yet even a murder land's secrets cannot rest easy, and now the promise of stolen power lures a United Republic expedition into the desolation. Fallen heroes thrash in the grip of posthuman madness. Dueling oracles fight an invisible war of shifting possibilities. A broken woman dies again and again. And beneath the harsh, uncaring light of the wasteland sun, something far crueler still prepares to ignite the flame of a new nightmare. A novella set in the Trinity Continuum: Aeon universe