Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don’t sell the usual things.
Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells-she cannot break that bond.
She feels an attachment she resents attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.īorne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. Driven insane by his torture at the Company, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers like Rachel.Īt first, Borne looks like nothing at all-just a green lump that might be a Company discard. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear.
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