Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "Purrrrrrr! Margil was not exactly human. And she wasn't exactly inhuman either. She was sort of feline, but you couldn't quite call her a pussycat. She could be brilliant when she wanted to be. She could be moody. Her purr was deafening, her love-taps could bowl over an elephant, and her furies were of earthquake intensity. It was lucky that her instructor in the ideals of peaceful unity, the Earthman Endo Leduc, was liked by her. Because the things he was teaching Margil went against the principles of Margil's Bodelan home world and especially against the thoughts of her father - twice her size and many times more formidable. And it was lucky for the inhabited galaxy that Endo was where he was - because The Bodelan Way was rapidly undermining humanity's grip on the stars - and Margil was the key to it all."