Mitri Jaron likes to think of himself as the surly engineer who'd be perfectly happy if the rest of the universe went ahead and imploded on itself. His crew mates are sure that's an accurate summation of his personality. But their views change after a fateful night out. When Mitri finds himself putting his life on the line for a child he just happened to stumble across, no one is as surprised as he is. This little girl with red eyes and abilities he's never seen before is tugging his heart in directions he swore he'd never go. He just wants to get her back to her parents and out of his life so he could return to the status quo. It's hard to do that when everyone BUT her parents are trying to take her away from him. He really wants to know how a five-year-old ended up with more enemies than him.