One interview! She'd given one interview and now everything had gone to hell. As she watched the blue ball getting smaller in the viewing portal, Lyra wondered how it could have ever come to this. But staying on Earth wasn't an option any longer. The alien was hunting her and wouldn't stop until he had her or died trying.
Lyra Trask has continued the research her father began decades earlier. She lives a peaceful existence out in the desert with Rigel, the hybrid her father created. Her business, Growth & Opportunity or Grow-Op for short, fills a select need in the difficult social climate of the controlled sectors. She's taken her father's research in a new direction, selling a product difficult to find in the uncertain new world of the sectors. Some call it love.