Ode on Form and Shadow

Mr. Morden, after Into the Fire, wonders what interventions have spared his life--and what he's going to do about it. The First Ones are gone, but their influence remains, and it seems as though he has access to information that could save billions of lives. Divine irony? Or punishment for a man who doesn't think he can rejoin the human race? A story of change, discovery, redemption, and new understandings. And coffee.