Fiction M586r
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe
as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from
the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in
one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is,
Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling
the endless rails of the railsea–even if his captain can think only of
the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she’s been chasing since it took
her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at
first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict—a
series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be
impossible—leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's
hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and
salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to
change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
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