Rumor had it that out there, somewhere, a starship lay abandoned along the airless subspace trail that was the only means of travel between planets for the primitive trailside peoples. And Eiverdein needed a ship if ever he was to return to known space and the culture of Earth Humans.But many things stood in his path—murderers, strange physics, an alien whose speech could kill, and a girl who was, at best, never all there...