Unpaid debts

Can one boy be a threat to the fragile peace between two civilisations?

Eleven-year-old Michel Barnier didn't have it easy, even when both his parents were still alive. They moved frequently from place to place, so finding and, more importantly, keeping friends was a problem. Then his mum died, and his father decided that he would fly with him on his new contract. And it certainly wouldn't be in the Solar System, because this time it was a job for aliens. And so Michel found himself on Cerberus, the first future interspecies base on the edge of human-known space, in a tiny cabin and a makeshift classroom for online learning. In a place full of adults who he was in the way of, while his father had flown even further away... Michel realised he would never come back during his first meeting with the enormous Shatchran soldier Nhakchat. And it was also clear to him that now that he was all alone in this alien world, he would have to fight for his place in it.