Offworlder shows up on Earth with an alien embedded in his brain and seeks help finding information on getting it out. The alien has other ideas. Ari is commissioned to help out on both campaigns and ultimately finds herself hosting the shattered remains of an alien lost on Earth centuries before. She must learn to integrate this alien into her being before an unknown agency can capture her. Throughout runs the question: who really knows what is going on? How do you find out reality in a universe where so much is hidden?