~ A backwater bunch of HS students attract High-$takes rivalry as they go in pursuit of Contraband come-oddities: which excites eVolved life forms, & coaxes up ESP, gradually lending them Options to hybridize their own nature. But part of them are already genetically spliced ~ including introverted Pyram, who has been bastardized by residue among his father's museum archives, secretly M-arked by the Flux*Folk for habitat renaissance, & now (on account of his Mentor's impulsive discretion) intercepted by the SILPH-Sprouts who speak of magnifying rich'jewels via resourceful "braiding."

These microscopic geometries glisten at him, boiling under his skin, until he's willing to funnel & Etch it through the marrow of his bones. And then there's the town Sorcerer, Rebecca, which no one can quite peg what she's joined the group for, but she's advanced enough practitioner to have charmed an insect nest into an astral beacon. Yet that's merely a parcel-truth among the Maternity. These manifold Entities of interest do not all herald the same Anthem; gestures begin to hanggg questionably (*costumes doth ripple..).); promiS'ealing tremendous tHornZ as the characters strive to polish crystals to cutting-edge circuits, & harvest the Abodes of neck'tar where fore-shaken i./Deals must learn to be restruct'shored...