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Book Information:
Genre: High/Epic Fantasy
Author: Sara Douglass
Name: Pilgrim
Series: Book Two of The Wayfarer Redemption
Extra Scan Info: This is book two of the sequel trilogy to The Axis Trilogy .
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Pilgrim
Book Two of The Wayfarer Redemption

Sara Douglass




Prologue
The lieutenant pushed his fork back and forth across the table, back and forth, back and forth, his eyes
vacant, his mind and heart a thousand galaxies away.
Scrape . . . scrape ... scrape.
"For heaven's sake, Chris, will you stop that? It's driving me crazy!"
The lieutenant gripped the fork in his fist, and his companion tensed, thinking Chris would fling it across
the dull, black metal table towards him.
But Chris' hand suddenly relaxed, and he managed a tight, half-apologetic smile. "Sorry. It's just that this . .
. this ..."
"We only have another two day spans, mate, and then we wake the next shift for their stint at uselessness."
Chris' fingers traced gently over the surface of the table. It vibrated. Everything on the ship vibrated.
"I can't bloody wait for another stretch of deep sleep," he said quietly, his eyes flickering over to
Commander Devereaux sitting at a keyboard by the room's only porthole. "Unlike him."
His fellow officer nodded. Perhaps thirty-five rotations ago, waking from their allotted span of deep sleep,
the retiring crew had reported a strange vibration within the ship. No mechanical or structural problem ...
the ship was just vibrating.
And then . . . then they'd found that the ship was becoming a little sluggish in responding to commands, and
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after five or six day spans it refused to respond to their commands at all.
The other three ships in the fleet had similar problems — at least, that's what their last communiques had
reported. The Ark crew were aware of the faint phosphorescent outlines in the wake of the other ships, but
that was all now. So here they were, hurtling through deep space, in ships that responded to no command,