"Change it. The thought rolled over in Skag's mind -- change it. The world unfolded beyond that gray wall. He thought then of Father Daugth sitting like a pending nightmare upon the stone dais. It made his heart weaken, but his eyes still glittered."

The bogfoke are the remnant of a diminutive, diminishing, ancient race of creatures who have lived secretively for centuries in a vast cemetery. When a gnawing desire for purpose awakens in the heart of one of the bogfoke, he sets in motion a series of events that will lead the bogfoke from the despair of their furtive existence and...