Two stories set between When the Bow Breaks and Full Circle. Pax Goes Home - The war that devastated Arcturus 2 is over. Xa'Paxezhaf has seen enough conflict and watched too many of her friends and lovers die, she has decided to leave The Arrow and return home. But will her parents accept her? Will they believe what the Vaeshic did to her? Even if Xa'Paxezhaf has finished with war and conflict, it seems that war and conflict have not yet finished with her. But first The Arrow has to return its volunteer crew, and that means going back to Haarn. The Goexun Conundrum - Goexun has been isolated from the rest of the universe for thousands of years, surrounded by a natural barrier that allows nothing to cross it, not even the light of the stars. Eta-Doej needs to know what is on the other side, so much that she has joined a risky and controversial project to send a probe through the barrier and into the realm of the gods. What comes back could either destroy her planet or release it from its shackles - a ship the size of a city and crewed by hideous monsters.