Award winning Sci Fi by Glynne MacLean described as "Brilliantly imaginative". A NZ Listener Best Book of 2003 and listed by the Children’s Literature Foundation as a Notable Book 2004.
Paperback suitable for 12 years and up.

Winner Of Sir Julius Vogel Award - Best New Talent In NZ Science Fiction. Winner 2009 Attitude Artistic Achievement Award.

Roivan's instructions were clear: travel to human space. Once in human space, stay there. Do not return. Speak only your name. Do not take the Test. Protect your mind. Do not speak of your world, your life or your species until you meet someone who tells you first.

Qirl had said that she must stay no more than fifteen days on any ship. If she stayed longer she would be caught. But the crew know Roivan is aboard, and she has nowhere else to go.