Experiment. Book 3. Echo of an Alien Mind

A century ago, a hyperspace pocket swallowed the fleet of a powerful civilization. And now echoes of that battle threaten the world that has sheltered Dmitry Voyevodin. From the besieged capital, where despair struggles with faith, he is viewed as a threat—or as the last hope. But all of this fades beside a cold ancient mind that sees every living being as an error.

Without even having time to assess the consequences of victory, Dami tar is thrown from the battlefield right at the iron-made engineers’ camp into a dark stone box, where it’s hard to tell where reality ends and illusion begins. A place where time itself fails, and the only salvation is oblivion. But even there he ends up face to face with the one next to whom the machines of the elementals become so familiar that you want to hug them. And while Dami tar tries to preserve his mind, his people decide—by force—to prove to the zealots their right to be the retinue of Prince Voyevodin.