Ten thousand gods

?I am Lalloure, to ask and to serve.? So says the Lalloure Rasong to the Kherlyndir family. Rasong serves the family for a day but when it leaves it takes something precious with it?the love of Vilian, a six-year-old human child. The Lalloure touched her, awakened her and she cannot forget. Twelve years later she leaves her family to find Rasong. And discovers not a society of childish, gentle neuters, but a race whose intrinsic needs are sexual, and whose passions of love and hate are both irresistible and lethal.