Has Bedivere become what humans fear most?The Federation no longer exists and sentient computers, the Varkan, are awakening. Bedivere X helps where he can, so when one lonely and scared computer, Jovanka, suicides and destroys half a planet, Bedivere takes the news hard. Then his close human friend Kemp is murdered and Bedivere disappears.Catherine and her friends must figure out what happened the night Kemp died, while trying to follow Bedivere's trail of devastation and inexplicable acts across the known worlds.Has Bedivere really gone mad? Has he become one of the creatures that humans fear the most? Cat faces tough questions about the man she loves, while unravelling the mystery he has left behind.