“Welcome to the circus of Chen Wei! A spectacle of marvels culled from a thousand worlds! Things that will fill you with rapture!” There could be little to surprise Dumarest. But Chen Wei’s circus was special. It held Melome – the girl-child whose song could bring back forgotten data from the logs of lost spaceships and true visions of mythical Terra. She was surely the key to Dumarest’s next step – but that circus was more than an entertainment. It was a deadly trap .
