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ZiggyBoot, a Level Seven clerk at the Soul Dam, processes souls through the eternal bureaucracy—until his own karmic ledger catches up with him.

An interlude exploring the rise of Petal, a sentient flower whose name became synonymous with galactic conquest—and the clerk whose mistake gave him the means to do it.

After his execution, Ziggaboot awakens inside a star—and with his memory intact, he has a plan: descend into the core, contact the antimatter beings beyond observable space, and find a way to break the Dam.