NIGHT ETERNAL

Its four in the morning and none of the people can sleep. Kane makes his way to the mat trans chamber and meets with Dafore. She and he snipe at one another as they are likely to do. She does want to know one thing, what it was like to die.

Brigid is taking a bath, her mind roiling because of how she and Kane acted together, and is worried about what is going to happen in the next casement. Eventually she gets dressed and goes to the redoubt library.

Grant and Domi are together. She is, as usual, naked and they are talking about his death and how he would like to hunt down and destroy Thrush in the next casement.  As usual they don’t have sex.

Kane is outside the redoubt at dawn and is joined by Brigid. As always they start to argue with each other as Brigid thinks he is lost in the memories of their doppelgangers having sex. They go around the subject and begin talking about the stones, Balam and the casements.

In some sort of bizarre reality dream Kane finds himself standing in a battlefield littered with the Dead. He is contacted by Fand.  She tells him that he must destroy the black altar in order to stop the daemon prince. His mind knows the goblins are actually hybrids or muties created by the Archons.

The others watch and wait impatiently as Kane makes the jump alone into the second casement. When it appears his health is in danger the others argue to pull him out. Lakesh insists on waiting. When the time finally runs out, Kane doesn’t return.

Kane finds himself under attack by more goblins and Fand tries to get him to stay.  His memories are a mixture of these particular casements and the real Kanes. 

Back in his real casement, the others continue to discuss why he is trapped, and Lakesh brings up the fact that they might not be in the real casement. Grant refuses to believe it.  The possibility of false casements is brought up.

Kane reaches the stone which is atop a huge diseased tree which is covered in strange like material, and is feeding off the corpses that are trapped in the plants.  Thrush, the Daemon prince brags about killing Kane 17 times in other casements and he goes to kill Kane again, but Kane uses his spear to direct an electrical attack back on Thrush, using the stone. It destroys the stone and he falls out of the tree and gets caught in one of the parasitic plants that are growing on the tree. When he awakens he hears Brigids voice and uses it to go back to his own casement.

Kane tells lakesh it was a trap set up by Thrush, but despite it all they are going to go through with the second jump and go into the next casement.

Kane and Brigid talk briefly before going into the next casement. Grant and bry watch it and discuss it, Bry pointing out the obvious problem as well as the problem between Grant, Domi and Dafore.  Grant is a little angered but both men get a small chuckle out of it.

Grant uses hypnosis to implant a subconscious message to himself to kill Thrush when they meet in the casement.

Before the jump they are in a meeting discussing the next casement and the fact that killing Thrush in all 3 might start a domino effect, saving and changing the other casements. Lakesh wants to hypnotize Kane to learn more about casements.

The hypnosis succeeds but at the same time they learn that in this casement Thrush has killed Brigid. Kane intends to prevent this from actually happening.

In the alternate casement Kane and Rouch are partners doing some investigating on a group of roamers. They are in Santa Fe and head into the ruined building to check out out some information.

In this casement Kane is an agent for the DEI, and is a Magistrate for this agency. He and Rouch discuss it as a possible roamer trap. Over the past four years numerous agents have been killed in Roamer traps.

It is as they expect, they get into a brutal gunfight and kill quite a number of people. The needless killing bothers this kane. The battle eventually goes to the roof and into the street. Kane and Rouch are led on a car chase until they shoot out the tires of the escapees car. Kane captures the man they are after, named Sheenan. He is shot in the arm and the other kane from the home casement is horrified to see that he is a cyborg. A shop is ruined by the fighting and is going up in flames.

The owner of the shop is greatly angered and turns violent.  He is a black man and in this casement, they are worse than second class citizens as the war occurred in the early sixties.

Sheenan is executed after showing Kane an alien artifact. The needless and violent death triggers Kane’s taking control of the doppelganger. He gets shot and knocked out.  When he awakens he is strapped to a gurney in an operating room and is being worked on. He wants to leave but is in no physical condition to.

In this casement Grant is the leader of the panthers and has a huge bounty on his head. He’s at the Mississippi wall and is waiting. They are going to attack a convoy of wags, trader wags which are part of the trade consortium.

Rouch comes to visit Kane.  He is certain that she tried to kill him and he tries to attack her. She easily disarms him and he is still in no condition to fight back. She tells him straight that if she wanted him dead he would be.

The other grant is able to assert control as this casements Grant learns that a rival panther gang is going to attack his gang as they take on the convoy. He plans to make the tables turn on him.  He calls for the attack and they set upon the convoy hard and fast.

Domi stops and talks to Lakesh who I shaving a guilt trip. She wants to know why the three of them have to go to the casements in the off chance that what they are doing won’t do any good at all. When she walks away from Lakesh, it hurts him badly. She isn’t happy with his lack of answers.

Grant’s people take out the traders and before the rival gang can attack they cut meat off the dead traders. He lets one man go with a simple warning, and a threat to send more traders as they could use more meat.

Brigid Baptist is walking and she knows that she is being followed. It terrifies her. She catches a glymps of the stalker but doesn’t recognize him from anywhere.  She goes to a mapping unit and gets in past the guard.

Grant faces the leader of the rival gang and tries unsuccessfully to convince him that the convoy of food is actually poisoned. He is forced to challenge him to a fight. They battle, and Grant wins. The prize is the gang which he assimilates into his own gang.

Rouch seduces Kane and rides him like a stallion.  He wants to resist as she repulses him because of the Rouch in his own casement, but the other Kane urges him on to sate his lust of the woman.

Brigid finishes up at the mapping unit and makes her way home, where her stalker attacks her.

The forces led by Grant come under attack by the western collation Deathbirds.  They attack the trader wags, hitting the cargo and releasing a gas, which is a virus. Grant’s forces a copter down and they go after it. The survivor doesn’t talk.

When Kane finally wakes up he finds Rouch gone. He checks his file and gets the important information on his doppelganger to fill in the gaps in his memories. He is startled when thrush comes in and gives him clothing and tells him o take some tranquilizers for his headache. He informs him that they are heading to the trade consortiums.

Brigid manages to beat her attacker but doesn’t kill him. She tries to find out what is going on. All the man does is reveal who sent him and that next time they meet she won’t get off so easily. In the Bathroom she is trying to figure out what her Doppelganger is hiding. She sees Genesis written on the mirror. She has an appointment to keep and goes to shower. The steam reveals a hidden panel on the mirror. Opening it she finds a 3D image of her and Kane on their wedding day. This causes her Doppelganger to take control again.

Thrush goes into the consortium area and forces once man named Broderick into coming with him, threatening the warehouses of goods and the wags with destruction if he doesn’t come along. He knows that Broderick is part of the underground.

Back at the base camp, Grant slept badly and is showering. He knows that there is something wrong with him and it bothers him greatly that his people have been infected as well. His girlfriend, a woman named Reba joins him and they make love in the shower.

Kane and Thrush are together still, Trader Broderick is now dead and Thrush confirmed what he already knew about the underground railroad. He and Kane discuss the western and eastern collations and what organization would cause. Without warning Thrush traps Kane with straps on his chair in order to interrogate him.  

Brigid takes time off from her research and goes to a cafeteria to eat. A man approaches her and tells her that Lakesh wants to see her.  She goes with him.

Thrush’s interrogation includes asking him if he knows Grant, the feelings he has towards his ex wife, and what happened with Sheehan, and finally ends up showing him Lakesh’s picture.

Brigid heads deep into the tartarus pits in order to find Lakesh.  They meet up together and he wants to know if she found the information they need.

Finally satisfied, Thrush lets Kane go and informs him about Lakesh, and how he is responsible for the Roamers, the Underground Railroad and the ties with the gangs in the Eastern Collation. And also the fact that Lakesh could be under their feet in the city of Santa Fe.

Using a series of tunnels Grant and some of his people head into Santa Fe right into the Tartarus pits where he meets up with Lakesh

Kane heads for Brigids dorm after Thrush releases him. He runs into the man who was stalking her and he is in her apartment. He announces that he is part of the DEI. Kane confirms it with his identity chip. The other man attacks and Kane kills him.

Back in the real casement Bry tells Lakesh that he has managed to get into the stones. They discuss the ramifications and that they could access any of the casements using it once he figures out how to use it.

When Brigid arrives she finds Kane waiting for her. They both allow their passions to take control and make love to one another.  Brigid gains control of her doppelganger but Kane doesn’t. When she asks him his identity, he thinks that she has lost it. He leaves and rouch goes after Brigid. She drops a bomb in the apartment. Outside Kane sees the explosion and is certain he lost Brigid. This allows him to take control of her doppelganger.

Kane meets with Grant and they go to see Lakesh. The man tells them about what Thrush is doing, using the embassy's to get his hybrids into power across the globe.  They lead an attack on the embassy with Grant’s people and fight their way to thrush, killing a large number of the hybrids. As thrush tries to get away, Kane drops onto the limo and is taken for a ride.

Grant takes a Deathbird and goes after Kane. He helps him get off the limo before it blows up form the Grenades that Kane drops into it. But the damage is done. The public knows about the Archons and the hybrids. This casement’s Kane learns that Brigid survived but Rouch didn’t. She died in the explosion instead.

They all return to their own casement.  Outside Brigid meets Kane. They again discuss the relationship of their doppelgangers and just watch the night. Kane lets her know that he is going to visit skydog and live up to the arrangement that he made with the Indian.

Abrams and a pair of sandcats are close by and figure that they will be at the redoubt by mid-day, the next day.

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