βTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.β β Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
Temple Scrivener set out with his anthropology crew to study the native culture of the wild plains dogs of The Golden Plains. En route he accidentally has First Contact with a new dog tribe that seems less and less canine as time goes on.