Prit is a thief by trade, dealing in retrieving or stealing items to sell in space. It helps that she has a bionic leg hiding weapons and a bionic eye that assesses the people around her. A miscalculation on her latest job finds her thrown in a cell with Saluk, a hulking and scarred gladiator. Saluk was taken from his home planet twenty years ago and forced to kill in the arena for the entertainment of others. He'd nearly given up...