Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Helena Holsten Lain and Meshner Osten Oslam

These are the pov characters from the humans.

Helena remembers her grandfather complaining about coming out of cold sleep on the old Gilgamesh, that had brought humans to Kern’s World.

The Understandings that the Portiids rely on so heavily became disconnected during long periods of sleep, to return haphazardly days after waking.

The scout vessel is duly christened Lightfoot, to represent the first tentative contact between the peoples of Kern’s World and whoever calls this new system home.