In order to avoid the Corporation marine tailing them, Isra orders the rest of the team to travel inland through the forest. Travel proves...
The emissary leads the team into Cytherea city, and Viekko gets a bad feeling as he sees, for the first time, the strange perfection...
Althea brings the pregnant Cytherean woman back to the shuttle in an attempt to smuggle her back to Earth. But the situation gets complicated...