In a far future, Earth has withered and the world has expanded beyond.
The Human race is small and insignificant among the greater and more powerful solar races.
Echo, a slightly modified human, is captain of the space cruiser, Scythe. Along with his crew, he does everything to stay out of the raising conflict between the races, especially the Emperials and the human rebels.
The crew of the Scythe, spend their time with low key scavaging, hustling and criminal activity, staying out of everyone's business, until one scavaging on the abandoned planet Earth.
Here, Echo finds a human. A human, who is not only alive, but is of the rarest and most sought after, by the solar races- a human male of the Asian subrace.
Echo brings the stranger on board Scytch and soon he and his crew, find themselves with unwanted attention, in the mist of the upcoming war between the solar races. The human they picked up, is desired by every fraction of the solar race, because of his rare beauty and a gift, which could mean victory, for whomever owned him.
Echo finds himself forced, to face the past he had left behind, along with new feelings, as he learns about the strenghs and significance of the human race.
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The aliens kill every human they catch, or in rare cases, put trackers on them to discover their hidden villages. When Natalie is caught in an ambush, she is unexpectedly released. But there is no tracker. The Saursunes have an entirely different motive this time.
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Run. Don't look back.
When Natalie is trapped in an alien ambush, she is unexpectedly released. The first human to ever be let go.
The Saursunes invaded centuries ago, and everyone knows that getting caught is certain death. Natalie is confused but grateful to be alive. As a porter, one of the few humans with the rare ability to teleport between special crystal formations, she must leave the safety of her desert village every day to help gather food.
When other villages increase their raids on the Saursunes' farms, the aliens retaliate by hunting down every human they can find - except Natalie's group. Instead of trying to kill her and those helping her, they bring them food instead.
Is it a trap? Or something else? Natalie isn't sure, but one thing is certain: the Saursunes aren't done with her yet.
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