What entraps you, can also set you free. Leon hates living on Tefnut, a planetary nature reserve of hydrogel seas and the gargantuan electric cawal. Not even friggites, the colossal bird-like warriors that populate the system, live there. But when the research lease granted to his family expires - he must choose between the safety of his sister's unborn child, his mother's life, an interspecies war, or the release he's long sought.