Defying the odds, Adriana and Zach have escaped MicroScrep's extermination institutions - Adriana, the Surrogate Colony, and Zach, the Eunuch Colony. They've found the off-grid Scientists committed to destroying MicroScrep and should be happily living in matrimony, but there is a problem: the Scientists don't trust them yet. Worse still, the Scientists' protective technology is failing. Much to Adriana's shock,...