The Night Shift

The Night Face, XI.

"Emerging from the spaceship, Raven saw that dusk was upon the land. The sky was deeply blue-black, early stars in the east, a last sunset cloud above the western mountains like a streak of clotting blood. He thought he could hear the sea bellow beyond the dike." (p. 644)

Early morning breakfast post before going out. Pathetic fallacy: Raven is going to a place where he will encounter violence so, of course, the last cloud looks like clotting blood and the sea seems to bellow a threat.

When I have more time, I will develop the theme of Raven as a potential series character, the hero of military exploits both in his own aristocratic civilization and as an interstellar mercenary.