-Life is confusing with 30,000 years of alien experiences thumb-tacked to the back of your brain. When eleven-year-old Kailin and her younger brother escape from their off-world captors and her brother is recaptured, only Kailin's encounter with a salamander saves her from a volcanic eruption. The salamander is Henki, a thirty-thousand-year-old shape-changing alien whose obsession is imitating the full lifecycle of each species he encounters. Henki...