In a galaxy where truth must be spoken by statute, one woman dares to read it aloud.When High Council Member, Mohreonia Are'lone Voleporcei, stands beneath the Meridian Fibres she makes her request known and does so by the book-because in her world, law is the only weapon left. Her father, a High Council elder, has vanished. The evidence points to the long since outlawed: dark trade of harvesting life-essence.With the aid of KherTok, last survivor of Earth and keeper of the chronicles, and EYRIAL, a GENz-50 companion grade robot, whose loyalty bends toward conscience, Mohreonia navigates a labyrinth of compliance, secrecy, and faith. She knows how to find the lines that reside between. Every word she speaks on record becomes an act of resistance that brings her one step closer to the truth.