After being drafted as a threat, they lept into the open vines of the affini. Staying independent since then, Karla has kept to herself for three years, rarely letting anyone in. A chance encounter threatens the eclectic life she was living before hand for better or worse.

An affini fresh from the home worlds encounters things that shake her belief in the compact and herself. Set thousands of years before The Human Domestication Guide!

This is my first attempt at writing anything coherent whatsoever. Based on an fanfiction that has since caused an addiction. Based in the HDG universe There is a nurse who has come across a peculiar situation on their way back home and needs advice on what to do.