What is a person, really? A bundle of meat, bones, guts, and hormones—the infamous leather sack full of crap? Or are those right who believe that “flesh is weak, but the spirit gives life”? Sue Vinyard tries to figure out what’s happening on Crowley: not to lose her humanity while wearing a mask of a cold-blooded monster and not to die. Dying is too early—there are still things to do on Yarre—where he’s loved and expected. And on old Terra too, where Sue has long ceased to be expected, but they definitely can’t do without her…