requesting to return to web-jockey training. He undergoes extreme training to improve his physical condition, and repairs his relationship with Cerrelle, while also beginning to again experience distorted vision. Eventually he is further enhanced by nanites, so he can link with the faster-than-light Web Needle ships. After another year of space training he becomes a web jockey. While in the web, Tyndel hears a voice asking him questions. It is an entity called Engee ('Nanite God'), telling him that it requires his consciousness to act as an observation platform for a reverse-energy universe. Tyndel accepts and is sent through, learning that Engee is a group of nanites created by the 'Ancients' of Earth before the devastation, which is attempting to prevent the universe from completing its purpose by replacing the information lost by the expansion of the universe with matter from another universe. Afterwards, Tyndel returns to Earth and explains what has happened. The Demons believe it is the end of their society, but Tyndel suggests that they trade with the station of 'followers', who have some technology that the Demons do not, such as gravity control. He returns to Cerrelle and explains that he and his children will no longer require the nanite treatments as Engee has incorporated the nanites into his genetics. The book ends with Tyndel returning to Dorcha to reflect on the past before returning to his new home in the north. References 1999 American novels 1999 science fiction novels Novels by L. E. Modesitt Jr. Tor Books books