The fate shift hit like a punch to the gut.Mocker didn’t need his patron whispering in his ear to feel the sudden roil in the currents of destiny, the hammer of an impending event of terrifying magnitude. Nor did he need a diviner to tell him it affected the entire world; everyone even slightly sensitive had to have felt the change in fortunes. Something very profound was about to happen, and it didn’t take a genius to know what – and who – it involved.“I felt that.” Lia spoke before Mocker could, the strange moon magic shifting and flowing around her as runes exerted their influence on reality. She was probably more sensitive to esoteric energies than he was, and given how much of a trial it was to read the currents of magic at the best of times he had no idea how she could stand to have such a sensory net out with the upheaval he was feeling.“Something big is coming,” Mocker confirmed, turning to Ike. They had only just gotten to the debriefing room after Endymion had dropped them off at Star Central, without even time to go over what had just happened — or what they planned to do now. “A confluence point has formed in the near future, and we are hurtling toward it. Mechaniacal must have found what he wanted.”“I shouldn’t have let Endymion back off,” Ike said, his perpetually sour face hardening into an expressionless mask. His fingers went to toggles on his chair, and a moment later alarm lights started flashing. “How bad is it?”“It’s big,” Mocker said. “World-affecting or more. My patron sees it as a potential disaster no matter which way it turns out, but I think it’s a nexus. We must have a chance to ensure it turns out for the better.”“I concur. And the physical location…” Lia tilted her head, then lifted her arm to point upwards, beyond the bounds of Earth.“The Orrery,” Ike said, not needing Lia’s help to know where the supervillain had to be. “The old space station.” He was one (...)