Nightside City
“Every time I stepped out I heard the howl of the wind itself, as it wrapped the air tight around every building in the crater, and when it backed up on itself, as it did that time, it carried out the noise of the Trap, bent into a whole new shape.
It was on my right cheek, and it was blowing warm.
I hated that. When I was a kid the wind was cold; you knew it was blowing right off the slushponds at the midnight pole, you could feel it. It was still damp from the rainbelt, too.
By this time, thou...gh, the wind was warm; it was as likely to be a back-eddy from the dayside as the true winds off the pole. A few years back, people would bitch about the cold winds, but they weren’t cold any more. Since I’d moved out to Juarez I never heard anybody mention the wind, not at Lui’s, not anywhere. It was another reminder of how close the city was to crossing the terminator, and nobody wanted reminding.
Hell, the city was actually justpastthe terminator; it was the shadow of the crater wall that kept us from frying, not true night.MoreLess
It was on my right cheek, and it was blowing warm.
I hated that. When I was a kid the wind was cold; you knew it was blowing right off the slushponds at the midnight pole, you could feel it. It was still damp from the rainbelt, too.
By this time, thou...gh, the wind was warm; it was as likely to be a back-eddy from the dayside as the true winds off the pole. A few years back, people would bitch about the cold winds, but they weren’t cold any more. Since I’d moved out to Juarez I never heard anybody mention the wind, not at Lui’s, not anywhere. It was another reminder of how close the city was to crossing the terminator, and nobody wanted reminding.
Hell, the city was actually justpastthe terminator; it was the shadow of the crater wall that kept us from frying, not true night.MoreLess
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