How far can science go before morals are lost? When empathic gene engineer, Keeper Sonja discovers she was unknowingly impregnated with the first talented embryo she created, she is determined to abort, until she realises the fifteen-week-old embryo is already self-aware and mind speaking to her, leaving her only one option: flee the complex to protect him from testing and termination. After an unidentified flying craft crashes near her, she is surprised to learn the pilot is human and from a nearby colony. She is torn between guiding him to the coast and rescue, or leaving him to fend for himself while she flees to protect the babe.