Synopsis: The Kren could not understand the aliens who came to their planet. The humans did not raise venum. They did not give birth to their young in eggs. And the did not molt. There was no way on Camiat that a kren would choose a human partner. But Arshel did. Her human molt brother was Dennis Lakely, son of famous archaeologists. Once she joined their family, she became part of their quest for an ancient city. She had no way of knowing that Dennis had chosen her for her hidden abilities and for her memory of a time in which they had both lived millennia ago - in the long-lost City of a Million Legends. (adapted from the back cover of the Berkley edition)