HUNDRED AND ONE ORBITS AROUND YOU.

Aero just wants a sliver of peace from the anxiety that has haunted him for as long as he can remember. He is exhausted. Born human with a bone-deep restlessness, he spent his youth as a space nomad, chasing speed and mining carbon just to keep moving. He thought he had finally outrun the urge when he met his wife and settled down, letting his paranoia fade into a quiet, welcome rest.

It did not last.

Shortly after their daughter was born, the phantom panic returned with a vengeance. The whisper became a scream, compelling him to abandon everything and push further into the deep black. Now at sixty-one, the compulsion is stronger than ever.

It is now almost painful to stay at one place for long.

His grandson chalks it up to bipolar disorder and creeping paranoia. Aero wonders if the boy might be right.

He has no idea that light-years away, the infamous mad tyrant Andromeda habours a similar affliction of a different nature.

Andromeda conquers, searches, and destroys, driven by a violent restlessness he cannot name. He dominates galxies, desperately seeking something he can never find, forever unsatisfied.

Neither remembers.

They are the shattered remnants of two ancient souls, the Dissenter and the Arbitrator, the architects of the universe they inhibit.

Bound by an eternal instinct, they are locked in a dangerous game of cosmic cat and mouse, across a hundred and one universes.