"A pleasure cruise of the damned... tell me, do you know what it takes for someone to end up here?"

Everyone has their own story, he's sure. They're not all like he is, a debtor with a withered heart, but the same was true of his acquaintances back home, in the Constant. A child desperate for home, an automaton looking to leave behind a world that didn't understand them, a performer looking to impress in the ever-escalating world of circus pageantry...