You never know what will be useful in life and what won’t... Ivar Trevelyan, a socioxenologist and the best field agent of the Alien Cultures Development Foundation, never thought he’d have to experience all the pros and cons of the newest method of moving human consciousness into the bodies of other beings. The result Trevelyan felt firsthand—more precisely, on his own “skin,” or rather, on chitin armor, with jaws, antennae, spurs, and all the other features of intelligent spiders—the inhabitants of Arkhang. A mission to rescue a colleague lost on this huge planet threatened to drag on, and time was running out. Because if the operation failed, the fate of the entire Galaxy would be at stake!