In a universe similar to this one, but where traditions and knowledge are very different, Jixim, Biendoror and Hereta face the challenges of their civilization using philosophy, psychic powers, and beauty as their weapons -- not necessarily in that order Go with them on adventures of strange discovery where nothing is ever the same for too long, the metaphysical is considered normal, and style has substance. Features three short stories ("A Question of Succession," "The Ones and the Others," and "The Squirrel In the Sky").