My name is Esna and I'm a scavenger. Me and my brother, when not doing farm chores for our adoptive parents, go out into the wilds and look for technology from before the fall. Apparently there was a big civilization on this planet before now, then something bad happened and everything got destroyed...or buried. The buried part is what's interesting, because things can be unburied and sold. Our real parents are dead, and everyone else on this world is a different race. We're not allowed to go to town without wearing our full armor, because our father made my adoptive parents promise that we wouldn't show our face to anyone with his dying words. They were his business partners, and he managed to fly our ship here and entrust us to them before his wounds from a deal gone bad ended him. We were just little kids then, and don't remember much, but we're not like anyone else on the planet. Little did we know, we're from the race that built the great ruined cities. A race that nobody knows about nowadays, but the fear is still there. They're blamed for everything that happened to the planet and its current poverty-stricken, violent state. 'Humans' they call them, though nobody knows what they are or look like. But the day I found out I'm one of them. That's when everything went from bad to apocalyptic worse...

Only months away from their escape from Mace, Esna and Rammak find themselves in the middle of a V'kit'no'sat attack on the Star Force ice world base. —- 'Evasion' is the 2nd book in the Wayward Trilogy and part of the Star Force Universe. It is a Phase 2 novel set during the V'kit'no'sat War era.

Stranded on a jungle world, Esna and the other evacuees fight both the V'kit'no'sat and the heavy gravity to survive, but she finds her pathetic lack of strength and stamina slowing the others down. Knowing she is responsible for their deaths, Esna is hauled along as the enemy picks them off one after another while the Star Force personnel refuse to leave her behind.