Koharu is about to step up her game. She’s on the exoplanet Kepler-62f, with her exploration team, searching for a suitable landing spot for their orbiting spacecraft when she comes across alien creatures huddled together. They do not appear to be hostile. Are they intelligent? Is this planet big enough for both them and humans? Establishing personal contact with another species is a young field biologist’s dream. To meet the moment she will use visual, auditory, and chemical signaling; proprioception; cutting-edge tech; even an ancient Chinese celestial jade artifact. Of course, communicating with aliens is one thing, getting through to her boyfriend is another matter entirely.