Book IV of The Saga of the Exiles. The firvulag are rising while the children of the metapsychic rebels race to re-open the time gate, the only escape route back to the Galactic Milieu. Now the adversary plays his role...Marc Remillard, defeated leader of the metapsychic rebellion determined to keep the time gate sealed and to create a new race from his offspring. Will he aid the Firvulag or bring succour to Aiken on the day of the Grand Tourney, when the Tanu and the humans meet the Firvulag in the last great contest of the exile world? Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.