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Chau Long, a scholar researching the effects of deep space on dead bodies, asks a shipmind for help retrieving a body but they both have backstories which will complicate retrieval.
Despite having read some of the author's other works in the Xuya series, I had problems understanding the setting for this story and what was going on.