All his life, Ilyaz has been an oddity and an outcast--the only human child at the Sunstone ojirri colony, cut off from the rest of his species by an impassable division between worlds. However, on the eve of his thirteenth summer solstice, he is determined to find the answers to the questions of his origin...and to pursue a growing feeling that his purpose lies beyond the walls of the desert oasis that raised him.
