Location:Wild Confederacy — the northern flats, bore site, 8 km northeast of Windbreak
Date/Time:TC1857.03.06 – TC1857.03.11
The slurry got into everything, and by the fourth day Silas had stopped being able to taste anything else.
It went into the water. It went into the bread. It was in the corners of his mouth when he woke and it was on the rim of every cup on the site, a fine gray silt with a flat mineral flavor and something bitter under it from whatever the Federation put in the mix to keep it from setting, and Alek Voss had told him on the second day that you never lost the taste, you only stopped noticing, and that this took about nine years.
He would have put up with a great deal worse.
Because it was going down.
