Chris, now a Trax, was what the West Sand Command called “a greeny.” Her “Before Time,” that time before she had been rifted, had been from a distant past, and perhaps even a different timeline. Who could say…? But after some three years of training, and a return to the very group who had rescued her from the desert, her “Now Time” circle was complete… with one adjustment, she was now also “Det Arjú.” She carried with her a mysterious pendant that she had been ordered to present to Lon, the Tagos of the Choe, an assignment that no West Sand Commander was as yet aware. Bruce, Chris’s friend, and fellow “Before Time” band geek was rejected by the Trax. While Chris trained, his path hooked him to the side of the Taden’s greatest nemesis, the Captain. Now as his lieutenant, he must help the Captain save his command by aiding him in the capture of Ponopin, a genius Tader entrepreneur, and the Brigade’s greatest thorn. But as fate would have it, neither mission is as easy as it sounds, the tangle of circumstances sending Chris, and Bruce on a collision course with each other.