Nothing ever happened here. Time in this mysterious world flowed steadily and slowly, and people’s lives were concentrated on a tiny island made from rafts drifting in the endless waters. Only none of them remembered how they got here, or who they had been before… Most of the inhabitants of the Shallowwater didn’t care—they happily traded memories of the past for serene peace of the present. But all good things come to an end—overnight, the locals, flat-eyed friendly neighbors, turned into irreconcilable and bloodthirsty enemies. A war of extermination began. To survive, people had to remember the long-forgotten experience of their civilization—and learn how to kill...