Jayd is married off to the warlord from another world, who promptly attacks Katazyrna and tosses Zan down the recycling chute into a vast cavern of decaying, soon-to-be-reused biomass discarded by every life form on the planet. When Zan’s mission to Mokshi goes wrong again, she and Jayd are violently separated. There are conspiracies within conspiracies, and political infighting that's a cross between gore-soaked medieval fantasy and posthuman bioterror. And Jayd has also come to possess Zan’s womb, which is gestating. We learn that Jayd has somehow betrayed her lover Zan, though Zan doesn’t remember any of that. Zan and Jayd live in the decaying remains of several living megastructures in space, controlled by a rigidly authoritarian society of feuding warlords. Hurley weaves deftly between Zan and Jayd’s perspectives, giving us clues about what’s really at stake. She wants more than anything to help Jayd on this mission, which she dimly recalls could save the world, or at least the world where she and Jayd live.
Plus, something else is tugging at Zan’s memory, something about an overwhelming desire and love for Jayd. Though Zan isn’t sure why she needs to get to the Mokshi, she does want her memory back-and Jayd assures her that those memories are inside the Mokshi. But Jayd and her mother, Lord Katazyrna, keep sending Zan back because she’s the only person able to breach Mokshi’s outer perimeter. Apparently, whenever Zan goes to Mokshi, she’s completely destroyed and loses her memory. And it would be nice if she could do it without getting all her troops killed this time around.
Jayd tells Zan that it's time to get back to her mission, penetrating the defenses of another world called Mokshi. Biotech worldsĪ myserious woman named Jayd eventually visits Zan and tells her that she’s currently on a planet ship called Katazyrna. Plus, she knows an awful lot about how to ride the sentient space motorcycles beasts that the Legion flies from one ship to the other, trailing plumes of yellow exhaust like something out of a 1960s comic book. But that’s all Zan knows-well, that and the fact that she has the kind of warrior instincts that let her fight like an MMA master. A doctor explains that Zan’s been recycled and reconstructed, hinting that she’s been in this situation many times before. She can speak, but she doesn’t know who or where she is.
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