Our continuing journey for the truth behind the mysterious Axalairians. With me, my best friend, Captain Jace Broker, a Via-an, and Paine, an orphan human in hiding from The Gekorlars.

I'm still considered the Vladi of the Athelian Empire, even with Vlady Caledon and the home world destroyed. That has kept me a target for MECA, the anti-alien faction of Humans from Earth. The very people that started the war with the Empire, in the first place.

There is no reason for them to be targeting me. Cal and our baby are dead. Cal has to be. I watched his world explode. So why do I still hear his voice? See him? Is it like with Aracne, my dead Axalairian teacher. If it is that I want it to stop.