*Explicit* Telemechus has waited ten long years since he returned to the Zealot Empire. Now, he has a chance to return to a place where he feels alive, where he has true friends and a better destiny. It is now his destiny to rebuild friendships of old, which have faded over the years. He has one heart and not much to lose when he goes head over heels for a new love. But the Matriarchs, the goddesses of his people and the last females, are in danger and there are few options to save them. With the oppression of terran values among the Empire, there are fewer options for Tiberius, who finds himself not only questioning his previously neutral views about the world and about a particularly interesting girl. Even Medelthian views are pulled into question as the civil war arises another civil war within the Zealot Empire, tearing between the zealots with the fall of the Prophet; a cross between terran friends and foes.
