A reflective statue is found at the bottom of one of Earth's oceans,
having lain there for 1.5 billion years. Since humans have recently
developed a time-slowing field and found that one such field cannot
function within another, it is suspected that the "Sea Statue" is
actually a space traveler within one of these time fields. Larry
Greenberg, a telepath, agrees to participate in an experiment: a
time-slowing field is generated around both Greenberg and the statue,
shutting off the stasis field and revealing Kzanol. Kzanol is a living
Thrint, a member of a telepathic race that once ruled the galaxy through
mind control.