Introduction: Kyarian scout Reylin T鈥橵air has been missing for eight months. Just when his closest friends - his cousin Vael T鈥橵air and best friend Kiran - are about to give up on ever seeing him again, he returns. Death is hot on his heels, though, in the form of a master assassin bent on returning Reylin to the vicious Te'iltic queen who held him captive.After a daring and impossible escape, the three travel south, seeking answers for a strange affliction now harrowing the scout. Their travels will change their understanding of the world...and disrupt powers they didn鈥檛 even know existed....