If aLWtaSAP was a road trip book, this one is a truck stop book. A varied collection of individuals all representing different species with different senses, modes of communication, and even environmental needs, are stuck together for 5 days none of them will forget. They spend time together and share their different ways of experiencing the universe. It’s a quiet bookend to the Wayfarer series but very much what you’d expect after reading the other books.