Marie, Alex, Antac and Selkert have gone through another temporal disturbance after Djamila was captured by bizarre sentient cephalopods. The terrible news comes soon after: they've jumped forward almost a century Horrified, devastated, they nonetheless launch an assault against the cephalopods' floating village, hoping that the temporal disturbance struck there too. But even if they find Djamila, what of their other companions--not to mention Earth...