Petaybee was growing up. Day by day the sentient planetlike any childwaslearning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli to respondto those s... » 

Petaybee was growing up. Day by day the sentient planetlike any childwaslearning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli to respondto those stimuli to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use humanspeech.Yanaba Maddock had appointed herself defender of her adopted planet and shehad even succeeded in proving its sentience to all the nonbelievers. Butdespite all her efforts few outsiders truly cared for the feelings andintelligence of what they perceived to be a giant hunk of rockor a mereoddity to be gawked at.Then Yana was kidnapped. The price of her freedomthe planet itself.But the only one who could speak for Petaybee was Petaybeeand no one knewwhat a living planet could do once it found its voice... «