King Creature, come

Vector narrates this story and admits that the start of his trouble is hard to pin down. Some would point to the landing of the relief ship, others to a few years earlier, when Harmony's sister Melody vanished. For Vector, though, everything changed on the day he first noticed a Creature nosing about the rubbish bins. From then on, the beliefs he had grown up with about what Creatures are, and what they are not, began to fall apart. Vector is a Person, one of a people who came from the planet Annulus and built a colony on Earth. The Persons regard themselves as superior, yet their community is not healthy. Over the years, inherited genetic faults have put their long-term survival in doubt. The measures they take to protect their future become a danger to Vector and to Harmony, his girlfriend. When the relief ship arrives, the two must act quickly if they want any future together.