Elise is one of the first generation of settlers on humankind's first interstellar colony on Gliese 832(c). Forced evolution has put her society in a place where digital and physical realities are nearly indistinct. Yet, after encountering refugees from another settlement, Elise finds herself questioning the comfort she has known. She sets out on an adventure entangling her with both one of the youngest people in the new world and an old enemy.