Za dmouth is a far-future paradise. Its five communities are intertwined by artificial flower networks so complex they combine to create the virtual realities through which Za dmouth is run. Yet into this vivid world a bad seed is about to be sown. Mansuruquyn, Priestess-Interpreter, has made a mistake. Exiled from the Shrine of the Crone, she is forced to live wild in Za dmouth for one season. But who are the two mysterious men who run the empty...