You never know what will be useful to you in life and what will not... It never occurred to Ivar Trevelyan, a socioxenologist and the best field agent of the Foundation for the Development of Alien Cultures, that he would have to experience all the pros and cons of the newest method of transferring human consciousness into bodies of other creatures. Trevelyan felt the result on his own skin, or rather, on the chitinous armor, mandibles, mustache, spurs and everything else inherent in intelligent spiders, the inhabitants of Arkhang. The operation to rescue a colleague lost on this huge planet threatened to drag on, and time was running out. After all, if the operation fails, the fate of the entire Galaxy will be at stake!