Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette, and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend. They were made people: clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kirn. And they worked aboard the Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, and lamps that mimicked live flame.

They lived in a kind of dream - until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the between sucked them into a spatial no-man's-land with no apparent escape. And there they were left alone...