Erdos. On this world, there is no shared reality. The wreckage of centuries lies everywhere, and the people carry within them the scars of ancient wounds. It is here that a radical religion has taken root, one that may change the course of history.
Lemit, the famous gender alignment surgeon, has been exiled to Erdos from ser home planet Marda for an affair with a former patient. Alone and destitute, Lemit accepts a perilous mission to find the voice of this strange new religion.
Haunted by the death of a lover, Grist, the noted Mardan procurator of the civil residuum, has also returned to Erdos. Ser to prevent an attack by the faithful that may be as inevitable as it is impossible to perpetrate.
Both will find Erdos an unforgiving place, a place where a violent history clings to everything, and where the meaning of events is, at all times, elusive.