Whats the lion game? asked Telzey of her captors.Youre engaged in it now, was their answer.It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed-transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets.Telzey was a human and, as such, a test piece - either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which. Either way the loser would not be just one talented human- the loser would be a whole civilization, and possibly a few peaceful planets as well...