Arliane Donestica attends mid-school on a planet called Pooda, a forbidding world of the future so far removed from Earth in space and time that the old world exists as a mythical origin for the Poodan progenitors. The Poodan Youth for Unity, sponsored by Pooda"s Elders, are chasing Arliane through her snowbound city at the request of the Elders, pressuring her about unspoken activities that might tie her to rebellion similar to her mother"s. Activist and wife as well, Arliane"s mother had died in a protest by explosion. Were the Elders behind it? Read of a biological mystery, political strife and forbidden action to discover the answer in HOVERING BRIGHT.