After rekindling her connection to her creator, Mother finds herself distracted by intense feelings she didn’t know she was capable of having, unaware that Marcus, Sue and the Mithraic are…

Marcus moves forward with a plan to rescue the Mithraic children, but first he has to find them. Back at the settlement, Campion and Paul bond while on a hunting…

With the end of their provisions in sight, officers contemplate a tough, risky strategy while struggling to raise the men’s worsening spirits.

A strange illness begins to show itself while another more familiar one jeopardizes the expedition’s most valuable resource: its captain’s judgment.

With something now stalking the ships, the captains debate their options, testing their loyalty to one another against their duty to their crews.