Linewalker

They rated her four-tenths and set her aside. It was their first mistake. On Vesh there is no weather, only maintenance. The rim world's core was tapped centuries ago, its warmth pushed up the veins to buy some paying world an early spring, and the linewalkers keep the last lines open by hand so the town does not die in the dark. Veya Marn should have been her family's pride. A childhood assay acc...