David is one of only two applicants to pass the entrance test out of his group of twenty students. He will not begin his training at Eden until he has made a friend of Jonathan, the young man he abused as a teenager. This is the requirement imposed on him by his mentor, Master Greg Arsh.

He discovers in the virtual room and later as a member of the guard why people hesitate to choose this tutor for their training. All Arsh's students must give themselves body and soul. But it seems to David that his master demands much more of him than he asks of most of his students. But David only wants to succeed where most fail.