Contains two shorter works set in Lee and Miller's Liaden Universe(R). Short story and "A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom, and " which first appeared on the Baen Books website; original novelette and "Ambient Conditions; and " and an authors' foreword. and "Galaxy Ballroom and " explores the rift that has opened in the Scouts subsequent to Korval's removal to the planet Surebleak, and the consequences of loyalty. and "Ambient Conditions and " details a dark time in Liaden history, and looks at what happens when discarded people are given power, and must choose how to use it.