A thousand years from now, on a terraformed Venus.... The Cities of Nast. Ern Peizer never knew anything else. The acid air, the breather masks, the underground houses. The rules were simple: Don't breathe the air. Don't take Advantage. And never, never, never attract attention to yourself...or else. Everyone knew the rules. Everyone lived by them. And everyone knew, eventually, attention would fall on them, and they...