The final exam for membership into the Hunter's Guild should be a walk in the park for a team leader like John. But his mentor Alpha failed to mention the heavy weight that membership carries with it.A meeting with The Grim Reaper and the Incarnation of Science, during his expedition, is only a start to the strange history that is Rootworld. If John's strange history lesson teaches him anything, he may pass yet. That is, if he doesn't decide that saving time and space is more important.