By winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger at the Utopiales SFF Festival, Nantes. Hundreds of years ago, the last humans left Earth. After centuries wandering empty space, humanity was welcomed - mostly - by the species that govern the Milky Way, and their generational journey came to an end. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, and those Exodans who have not yet left for alien cities - among them a young apprentice, a lifelong spacer, a planet-raised traveller, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead and the Archivist who ensures no one's story is forgotten - are left grappling with the question: What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?