Stated first printing, dated. Confirmed as true first printing by ISFDB. Tight, clean, flat, square boo with light edge wear. Tips rubbed. Previous owner's marks. Pages lightly toned, marginally darker. Second of four in a series

Humans had long shared the planet Ver-draak with the Ni-lach people -- until, in fear of the unusual Ni-lach powers, they turned on the natives. The Ni-lach who survived the massacres went into hiding. Decades passed. Pursued by bounty hunters, Dhalvad the Ni-lach and Poco the half-breed fled into the wilds. Though Poco didn't know it, she had a special Ni-lach talent, similar to Dhal's abilities to Heal and to transport himself through space and time. But somehow she had to learn to use her gift -- for the fate of all the Ni-lach people hung in the balance.