Fliss knows all about her ancestors, the Travelers, who were forced to land on Fjern thousands of years ago, but when it comes to the Gyr-the enhanced warriors who protect the people of Fjern from the monsters that inhabit the planet-she's in the dark, even though she is one herself. There's plenty of ceremony and arcane tradition set up around who receives the gyra-the nanotech that makes the warriors the super-protectors that they are-but Fliss...