The general populace has heard of the serial killer who claims six people at a time to the tune of thirty. Tom knows the events as a cruel pathology of evolution involving incessant orientation of energy, which he is also certain, is the work of an unknown Power Holder. His Psychotelemetric Tel reading has been tracing psychochemical bursts of energy he is not able to connect to an Originator or a Designator.
When Power Holders in Shepard suddenly dies each to the east, west, north, and south, he knows the evolution he is tracing as that of the 5th degree, which acclimatizes the subject of evolution as the 5th and recognizes the gravity prone designation without a base designation.
Kendra and Citana are romantically interested In Mothan Athides, his main suspect in the case he terms “The Case of the Pathogenetic Altmorph Designator”, PAD. The girls suggest they indoctrinate the boy into the Phoenix Risers Clan, a fate that will bring the PAD into a most fearful matured 3rd generational evolutionary state. And the search to thoroughly identify and stop the PAD intensifies immeasurably when Mothan drops Citana for Kendra, the Energy Holder with the capability of assimilating all the powers of The Phoenix Risers without their individual consent.