Every sixty days, the universe lets them speak.
Andri Bylur the engineer inventor dives off a balcony on a floating ice world to escape a contract marriage, armed with a sonic flight pack, a forty-pound alien ferret, and a communication tablet that connects him to Tomesha Ki, a rock sorceress on a world he cannot locate.
What do you do when the only person who truly knows you lives on a world you cannot find, in a universe that gives you one week every two months to hear their voice?