The Long, Brightly-Starred Night

"The Long, Brightly-Starred Night" is the concluding chapter of the second Orphans book, To Bell The Cat. It serves as a denouement for the events in that book, and sets the stage for the next.

Ress begins to recover from her injuries, and wonders at why she saved Nerrine when she was at the mercy of the old rex. Nerrine is visited by Lask, who had overheard Petara and Kellin discussing their knowledge of Ress's involvement in the death of Jarissy in "Walking Wounded". Nerrine asks that Lask recruit Fenn to gather information. Meanwhile, the old rex's injuries are healed the Eridian nanites he ingested when he killed Nisja of Titan ("Rex on the Beach"), making him a cyborg.