One year traveling together. For generations, each Crown Prince travels the galaxy on his Orientation tour for one year beginning on his 15th birthday. And each Crown Prince is escorted by the King's Chief Robot Advisor.
Now Crown Prince Fate and Chief Robot Advisor Kin will begin Fate's Orientation; they will bond as they visit the tribes. And Kin, knowing he is to be deactivated in one year, will compose his final artistic work - his requiem - with the voices of humans and robots his muse.
One year traveling together. For generations, each Crown Prince travels the galaxy on his Orientation tour for one year beginning on his 15th birthday. And each Crown Prince is escorted by the King's Chief Robot Advisor.
Now Crown Prince Fate and Chief Robot Advisor Kin will begin Fate's Orientation; they will bond as they visit the tribes. And Kin, knowing he is to be deactivated in one year, will compose his final artistic work - his requiem - with the voices of humans and robots his muse.
Crown Prince Fate and the King's Chief Robot Advisor Kin begin Fate's Orientation among the largest tribe in the galaxy - the Hasan tribe. On the Warm Worlds, they will come face to face with one of the oldest mysteries of the shrouded past of humans and robots. And it may change the fate of an entire world.