A woman out of time lands on a world that has potential to become a weapon for the future. Noma feels the pain of separation from her sister keenly, but the light that she stumbles across belongs to a man with beautiful eyes. In a city of the rejected, she finds a purpose, and in the investigation of her destiny, she takes people with her out of the shadows and into the light. The Citadel takes shape under her focus, and when it comes time for their first actions, her training on Resicor is used to help the talents that it had kept under control. It goes to show that education is never a waste.