A week after Violet's battle with the Graeae triplets, she learns why she was able to open the tiny room and to time travel. But once she realizes her extraordinary powers, her Aliathenian ancestors worry that she might expose their existence to Earth humans. Violet, her brother Ollie, and the other two remaining mutant children of the voyagers, Jomo and Chieko, use their exotic matter eyes to create a transversable wormhole. They travel to another universe to visit their planet of origin, Aliathenia, where they learn why the Aliathenians risked all to mutate their species for travel to...