When Josh and his autistic cousin Dawn are sent to the planet Solferino.they join a group of kids already working for an interplanetary conglomerate stationed there. Assured by the bosses that no intelligent life exists on Solferino. Josh and Dawn come to suspect otherwise. Especially when Dawn makes contact with one of the creatures, a creature with whom she shares a mysterious ability to communicate.
With the corporation pressuring them. Josh and Dawn are drawn into a battle to save the creatures. And. it turns out. to save themselves。
Josh wondered what he had missed. "Going where?"
"Oh-oh." Dr. Ergan bit her lower lip, and glanced from Joshua to Dawn and back. "I hope I haven"t spoiled a surprise. But your aunt didn"t say to keep anything a secret. Look." She turned around to her desk, picked up a message sheet, and read from it."Examine as soon as possible, to make sure that they are medically fit to travel off-Earth, and could stand to make transitions through the node network."
"Both of us?"
"That"s what it says." She laid the sheet back on her desk. I see no reason either or both of you shouldn"t go up into orbit. Or,if you feel like it, through a node to the Kuiper Belt. Or.anywhere else that your uncle and aunt see fit to take you."
