When the census on the desert planet of Castoe arrives each year, all boys ages three and older are required to apprentice to desert teamsters.
Moekaff Graber begins his training as a scrapper with Uzzon, learning the trade of transporting goods across the sparsely-populated and challenging planet.
At three-years-old, he learns the basics, at six to read and navigate, by nine, the thirty-day rule is the line in the sand between him and everyone else broken by the Castoen desert and the demands of the census.
Read this novella of survival, loss and recovery because the stakes are high on a desert world.