{"id":1137,"date":"2026-01-03T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/culture-07-look-to-winward-banks-iain\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:15:09","slug":"culture-07-look-to-winward-banks-iain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/culture-07-look-to-winward-banks-iain\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture 07- Look to Winward – Banks, Iain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Near the time we both knew I would have to leave him, it was hard to tell<\/b> which flashes were lightning and which came from the energy weapons of the<\/b> Invisibles. <\/b><\/p>\n

A vast burst of blue-white light leapt across the sky, making an inverted<\/b> landscape of the ragged clouds’ undersurface and revealing through the rain<\/b> the destruction all around us: the shell of a distant building, its interior<\/b> scooped out by some earlier cataclysm, the tangled remains of rail pylons<\/b> near the crater’s lip, the fractured service pipes and tunnels the crater had<\/b> exposed, and the massive, ruined body of the wrecked land destroyer lying<\/b> half submerged in the pool of filthy water in the bottom of the hole. When the<\/b> flare died it left only a memory in the eye and the dull flickering of the fire<\/b> inside the destroyer’s body. <\/b><\/p>\n

Quilan gripped my hand still tighter. ‘You should go. Now, Worosei.’ Another,<\/b> smaller flash lit his face and the oil-scummed mud around his waist where it<\/b> disappeared under the war machine. <\/b><\/p>\n

I made a show of consulting my helm’s read-out. The ship’s flyer was on its<\/b> way back, alone. The display told me that no larger craft was accompanying it,<\/b> while the lack of any communication on the open channel meant there was no<\/b> good news to report. There would be no heavy lift, there would be no rescue. I<\/b> flipped to the close-quarter tactical view. Nothing better to report there. The<\/b> confused, pulsing schematics indicated there was great uncertainty in the<\/b> representation (a bad enough sign in itself) but it looked like we were right in<\/b> the line of the Invisibles’ advance and we would soon be over-run. In ten<\/b> minutes, maybe. Or fifteen. Or five. That uncertain. Still I smiled as best I<\/b> could and tried to sound calm. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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