THEMES

The more keenly scientists ponder space and time the weirder things become. Space, close up, begins to look like a pot scrubber. Time, like a rubber band.

But great civilizations across all known space and time share a familiar essence. They wobble down the katana's edge of history propelled by appetite, choice, and necessity. They lean ever toward justice, peace, and enlightment, but are ever checked by ignorance, arrogance, and greed.

Great love dances down similar precarious trajectories, similarly tipped to and fro - at one cheek courage, will and heart; at the other, selfishness, ego, and doubt.

Great civilizations arise from the dreams and daring of their warriors - those who forget self in confrontation with dark forces. When the warriors fall, so goes civilization.

Great love is the aria of mortal lovers - those who give all to receive everything. When lovers lose heart, civilizations are shattered. For, what is a lover but a warrior in combat with the dark forces of self?

Aya.Takeo is a story of space, time, civilization, and star-crossed love. It's a story for our time set in a distant wrinkle of space where some things are familar and others are forever surprising.