'Ten years after a meteorite hit the planetary satellite system, the world is still recovering from the ensuing chaos. In Queenscliff, Victoria, a new society is born, patterned on a medieval court. Into this framework the 14-year-old telepath Alain Beastfriend is sent on a quest: to rescue a fellow telepath, the girl Tyrell of the Dolphin, slowly dying in an unknown prison for an unknown cause'. Source: publisher's website.