On a far future world untouched by human presence for almost five
hundred years, a young woman pilot crashes into a forest. Nothing in
her life has prepared her for this moment, except a training session
that neither she nor her peers took seriously. Forced from her
comfortable shell, moving through the dark forest night toward rescue,
she confronts the realities of her current moment and the complexities
of the revolution that shaped the world she knows.
Unknown to her, she is pursued by a creature from that same past she
helped undo, a species mistreated by the former world, now regaining
much of its lost territory. In that previous world, almost completely
wiped away now by the work of herself and generations of others, the
voices and needs of nonhuman entities went unheeded. In the darkness of
the forest she may well learn a lesson in perspective, in viewing the
world through other eyes--the eyes and senses of the nonhuman.
Nearing the end of her journey, close to rescue, she realizes something
follows her. Fearful, all her ethics, everything she believes in, are
suddenly on the line and she finds herself tested in a way in a way she
never expected. The larger world of her concerns compresses to a pair of
eyes and she must decide: in this moment of two worlds meeting, will she
choose the path of self-preservation, or if necessary will she sacrifice
herself for the greater good?
