CHAPTER SIX
Kevin could feel the full beauty and weight of the Hive buzzing in his brain. No, that wasn’t right. It wasn’t in him; he was in it. He was one part of the whole, a mote of light in a whole interconnected galaxy. Trying to keep track of it all was dizzying, seemingly impossible.
“It will get easier,” Purest Xan promised him, although there was no kindness or sympathy in that. It was simply an observation of fact.
“Has the Hive always been so… big?” Kevin asked, barely able to comprehend the scale of everything that he could feel.
“You are seeing the connections of one world ship,” Purest Xan said. “Look beyond, Kevin.”
Kevin tried to look deeper, and now he saw a shining strand leading out from the Hive that he was connected to, linking to a bigger, more complex web of con
